Highlights from the Evolution 2013 meeting

Terrapins' light displays, a natural fish experiment and how a variety of eye colors persist in white Europeans, presented June 21-25 in Snowbird, Utah

The first study of vision in diamondback terrapins finds the animals see a wider range of wavelengths than people do. 

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Terrapins show off
Human eyes may not do justice to the spectacle of terrapins flirting.