Sea snakes regain advanced color vision, recovering a complex trait once lost to evolutionary time

PHYSorg
Dec 20, 2024, 9:43 am28 pts
Nine species of sea snakes have now been identified as having regained the genetic requirements for advanced color vision, demonstrating that once a complex trait has been lost to evolutionary time, it may be regained in some way.

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