These animals evolved to be ‘ultrablack’—here’s why
An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...
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This Velvet Ant Provides New Insights Into Nature’s Ultrablack Secrets
(blue line). Dr Lopez and collaborators pointed out that the velvet ants’ ultrablack is not just created by pigmentation. As they write in their paper, these structural colors “are formed in ...
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Velvet Ants' Rare Ultrablack Markings Are So Dark They Absorb Nearly All Visible Light
The species in question is Traumatomutilla bifurca, a type of velvet ant – which is, somewhat confusingly, actually a species of wasp. Some of these wasps don't have any wings, but they do have ...