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Animals' color vision evolved even before the appearance of brightly colored fruits and flowers.
According to the study, warning colors appeared about 150 million years ago, before the advent of sexual color signals.
A new study has shed light on the evolutionary path of color vision in animals, revealing a surprising fact: they evolved the ability to see colors about 500 million years ago – long before the emergence of bright colors in fruits and flowers.
According to Interesting Engineering, this discovery changes the understanding of how and why color manifestations appeared, initially driven not by aesthetics, but by survival and reproduction.
Led by John J. Vince of the University of Arizona, the study, published in the journal Biological Reviews, analyzed the evolution of “conspicuous colors” such as red, yellow and blue…
