The most intense color in the biological world belongs to a tiny African berry. Iridescent blue and metallic, it literally outshines any other plant or animal substance in the world.
The color is structural color, a kind of color so strong that it is still vivid in the fossils of 50-million-year-old beetles.
Scientists have not figured out the reason for the berries to have this color. What good does it do them?
I don't know. But I'm glad it's there.
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