What do a deer, a dolphin, a squirrel, and… a dinosaur have in common? The boring answer is they’ve all lived on this planet at a certain point in time. What’s even more surprising about their common features is their coloration! There's a theory that says that animals are “painted” by nature so that the parts that get the most light from the sky are the darkest, and vice versa. So, why is blue so rare among animal colors? Credit: CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0: Graphosoma lineatum: By Adrián Castillo Rivera – https://flic.kr/p/f9EFc1, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29465837 Glass frog: By Geoff Gallice from Gainesville – https://flic.kr/p/8WXKkm, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22451050 CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0: Eastern cottontail: By JJonahJackalope, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105739878 University of Arizona: By Michael Barera, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79069140 Leucistic squirrel: By Rhododendrites, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=128221689 White Lion: By Stano Novak, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1272024 #brightside Animation is created by Bright Side. —————————————————————————————- Music by Epidemic Sound https://www.epidemicsound.com Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz —————————————————————————————- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru —————————————————————————————- For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me

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