Scientists have found out why flowers got a specific colour in ancient times

A fresh publication in Proceedings of the Royal Society states that an international team of scientists has established the origin of multi-coloured colour in flowering plants. According to experts, its diversity had a direct dependence on the perception of ancient pollinators, namely insects and birds.
In the course of their research, scientists have compared the colour diversity of the background in nature with specific features of flowering plants on the example of Australia, as a result of which they have collected a database of materials that existed about 100 million years ago – at this time falls the appearance of the first flowers in plants.