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Oldest Fossilized Biological Color 1.1 Billion Years Old


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Scientists discover the world's oldest colors

 

“Scientists have discovered the oldest colors in the geological record, 1.1-billion-year-old bright pink pigments extracted from rocks deep beneath the Sahara desert in Africa.”

 

Scientists discover world's oldest colour – bright pink

 

”Pigments found in 1.1bn-year-old rocks beneath the Sahara desert shed light on ‘major puzzle’ about early life”

 

Scientists Discover The Oldest Color On Earth

 

“Scientists from Australia, the United States and Japan have discovered the world’s oldest color: bright pink”

 

Paper: 

 

1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers

 

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Dr Amber Jarrett and Associate Professor Jochen Brocks at the Australian National University. Photograph: Stuart Hay/ANU

 

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Biogeochemistry Lab Manager Janet Hope from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences holds a vial of pink colored porphyrins representing the oldest intact pigments in the world.
Credit: The Australian National University
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Love what you are posting here,but that link is to an abstract only.

Let someone please prove me wrong

 

 

 

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