Flamingos have been famous for their striking pink feathers long before Barbie made it fashionable, but what exactly makes them that color and why do flamingos in captivity sometimes look different to ...

Paul Mannix, licensed under CC BY 2.0 If you're a flamingo, you really are what you eat: the colour comes from a diet of shrimp and microalgae, in particular diatoms and blue-green algae. Flamingo ...