According to an international team of scientists led by Dr. Nicholas Mundy at the University of Cambridge, a gene for red color vision that originated in the reptile lineage approximately 250 million years ago has resulted in the red bird feathers and ‘painted’ turtles, and may be evidence that dinosaurs could see as many shades of red as birds. Torvosaurus gurneyi. Image credit: © Sergey Krasovskiy. Earlier this year, two groups of scientists...
