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Presumably the poison dart frog's ancestors were not so brightly colored, or their skin toxic at all. How did their skin evolve into the brightly-patterned, cardiac-inducing toxin-spewing coolness they are today? How did their skin 'decide' to turn this way, to keep away predators?

by /u/wowwow789 in /r/askscience

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