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RE: Last Year We Realized There Were Fluorescent Frogs, This Year We Find Fluorescent Chameleons!
Damn that's pretty sick, I wonder if it's in 8/12 of the chameleons if that might mean that it is actually an ancestral trait in the chameleons. Could be cool to see us find a bunch of reptiles with a common ancestor to chameleons also have the dormant genes for fluorescent growths, but possibly having evolved to not expressed them. Could lead to some interesting new discoveries
Indeed, presumably there would be a gene pathway for development of these bone growths (and it shouldn't be all that hard to identify, especially considering the differences based on sex). Tracing things back through the evolutionary tree would indeed be pretty interesting.