Harvard PhD student Dakota McCoy, who studies Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, asks why birds of paradise evolved to have brightly colored feathers. Then she asks an even bigger question: Why did some of these brightly colored birds also develop super-black feathers?
<a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/new-research-reveals-super-black-feathers-light-absorbing-properties">Learn more</a> about Dakota McCoy's research.
<a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/veritalk-love-battlefield">Episode Transcript</a>
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