Scientific American

For insects trying to avoid hungry birds, flashy iridescent shells might not seem like the best evolutionary strategy. But in recent years, biologists have shown that iridescence—lustrous shifts in color, depending on the …

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Scientists previously assumed that iridescent creatures such as dragonflies and …