{"id":647599,"date":"2020-02-26T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647599"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:39:05","slug":"mosaic-evolution-painted-lorikeets-a-rainbow-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=647599","title":{"rendered":"Mosaic evolution painted lorikeets a rainbow of color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study examines how color evolved in one of the flashiest groups of parrots\u2014Australasian lorikeets\u2014finding that different plumage patches on the birds evolved independently through time. The study, published this week in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology, helps explain why it&#8217;s possible for the birds&#8217; faces and front sides to display a dazzling variety of colors\u2014from vibrant ultraviolet blue only visible to other birds to deep crimson and black\u2014while their wings and backs tend to be the same color: green.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-mosaic-evolution-lorikeets-rainbow.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Mosaic evolution painted lorikeets a rainbow of color<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study examines how color evolved in one of the flashiest groups of parrots\u2014Australasian lorikeets\u2014finding that different plumage patches on the birds evolved independently through time. The study, published&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=647599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}