Hey friends! Today Ben explores the world of colour, we hear about how confusing feathers are, and discover that Polar Bears are FREAKIN IMPOSTERS. ••••• Your host: Ben Cooper, the quasi-ecologist ••••• Looking to explore on more platforms? Insta: https://www.instagram.com/naturalworldexplored/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@naturalworldexplored ••••• Thank you so much to everyone who’s checked out my YouTube Membership! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsuWQV4_s-Wt-JE8kvv7E1w/join Or my patreon page! https://patreon.com/NaturalWorldExplored Your support means everything to me! ••••• Been exploring for some sweet nature merch? You can score some here soon! https://naturalworldexplored.com Audio Credits ••••• Intro Music by Aakash Gandhi Audio Editing by Wojciech B. ••••• Photo credits Photonic Crystals Diagram: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Introduction-to-Photonic-Crystals-%3A-Bloch-%E2%80%99-s-%2C-%2C-%28-Johnson/5fad2dacf3b86b2748e5910f1ea64be1ebec2936/figure/3 Photonic Glass Diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Anisotropic-photonic-glass-APG-is-fabricated-in-the-bulk-of-the-glass-by-direct-laser_fig1_310823471 Bragg Reflectors Diagram: https://www.batop.de/information/r_Bragg.html Diffraction Gratings Diagram: https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/University_Physics_%28OpenStax%29/University_Physics_III_-_Optics_and_Modern_Physics_%28OpenStax%29/04%3A_Diffraction/4.05%3A_Diffraction_Gratings Quasi-crystal Diagram: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Geometric-structure-of-the-Tsai-type-quasicrystal-QC-and-approximant-crystal-AC-1_fig1_318197452 Thin film interference: https://physics.highpoint.edu/~jregester/potl/Waves/InterferenceColors/interfcolors.html Ref Fabbri, Matteo; Wiemann, Jasmina; Manucci, Fabio; Briggs, Derek E. G. (2020). "Three-dimensional soft tissue preservation revealed in the skin of a non-avian dinosaur". Palaeontology. 63 (2): 185–193. doi:10.1111/pala.12470 #science #nature #animal #dinosaur #evolution #wildlife #explore #earth