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

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Nine species of sea snakes have now been identified as having regained the genetic requirements for advanced color vision.

University of Adelaide study found the genetic trait may have existed in a common ancestor of the nine species, dating back three million years .

Scientists previously identified one species that had re-elaborated the visual function in response to its spectrally complex environment.

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