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Blue is both the most common color in nature and the least common. As the dominant color in the sky, blue is the background color for daytime. As the color of large bodies of water, the entire planet appears to be blue from space. Beyond sky and sea, blue is a relatively rare color whereby few plants, animals or minerals are blue. For this reason, blue was the last major color to be widely available as a pigment. The following are examples of things that are naturally blue.
Aquamarine | Blackberries | Blue Algae (Cyanobacteria) | Blue Cheese | Blue Diamonds | Blue Iguanas | Blue Jays | Blue Potatoes | Blue Quartz | Blue Raspberries | Blue Scorpions | Blue Shark | Blue Supergiant Stars | Blue Topaz | Blue Velvet Shrimp | Blue Whale | Blue Wheat | Bluebells | Blueberries | Bluebirds | Bluebonnets | Bluefish | Butterflies | Canals | Chalcedony | Clouds | Cobalt | Coral | Corn | Cornflowers | Crabs | Crayfish | Dart Frogs | Dragonflies | Dragons | Dumortierite | Earth | Easter Eggs | Elderberries | Eyes | Fire / Flame | Flax Flower | Forget-Me-Nots | Glaciers | Grapes | Ice | Icebergs | Jeans | Jellyfish | Kingfishers | Kyanite | Lagoons | Lakes | Lapis Lazuli | Lobster | Macaws | Mermaids | Mist | Mold | Moon | Moonstone | Morning Glory | Mountains | Neptune | Oceans | Opal | Parrotfish | Parrots | Peacocks | Plums | Pools | Rivers | Robin’s Eggs | Sapphires | Sea Sponge | Smithsonite | Snakes | Sodalite | Starfish | Tree Swallows | Turquoise | Uranus | Water | Waterfalls |
Many of the things in the list above have blue variants but aren't always blue. For example, there are dozens of species of snake that are blue or partially blue but not all snakes are blue. Blackberries and elder berries appear to be black but are in fact a very dark blue.Some of the things in the list above change color depending on conditions. For example, oceans, waterfalls, icebergs or clouds can look blue depending on weather and lighting conditions.Mermaids and dragons are mythical.
Blue is an extremely common color for modern manufactured products, fashion, architecture and interiors.
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