The Horrible Reason Rolly Pollies are Sometimes Blue

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Skillshare is offering SciShow viewers two months of unlimited access to Skillshare for free! https://skl.sh/scishow-13 If you uncover a bunch of rolly pollies under a log, you don't expect to find a bright blue one crawling among all the usual grays and browns. But it turns out your fun surprise is some very bad luck for that terrestrial isopod. Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources:https://www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_74.html http://tolweb.org/Isopoda https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237147069_Iridovirus_infection_in_terrestrial_isopods_from_Sicily_Italy https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022201180900415 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044848616302800 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2761.2009.01110.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5923455/ http://trevorwilliams.info/AVR_2005.pdf [PDF] http://www.trevorwilliams.info/Iridovirus.htm https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128009468000088 https://www.asu.edu/courses/phs208/patternsbb/PiN/rdg/color/color.shtml https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/how-birds-make-colorful-feathers/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123970145000067 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rstb.1994.0095 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15841225 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B0122267656003935 http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/bragg.html https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013181 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.1993.0033 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14567216
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