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Colour vision in an ancient vertebrate revealed

As humans, we take for granted that our vision works both in day light and when light is much reduced as at night, although we are aware that our ability to distinguish colours is considerably lessened as the light dims.

Day light and colour vision are both the remit of cone photoreceptors whereas dim light vision is down to rod photoreceptors. But when did these distinctions first appear in the evolution of vertebrates?