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Researchers Find Color In Fossils

Posted by kdawson on from the any-color-as-long-as-it's-black dept.

Science News has a look at the latest paleontological fashion: what may be the remains of pigment in fossilized feathers 100 million years old. The material in question is believed to be black melanin, on the evidence of its similarity in scanning-microscope images to the modern pigment. The researchers are hopeful of identifying other varieties of melanin, which provide red or yellow coloration; and also possibly of spotting fossilized nanostructures of melanin that create iridescent patterns in some modern animals.

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  2. Stupidity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This article is wrong. God created America and the world 3000 years ago, so these stupid scientists must be wrong about their dates!

  3. Re:Hokey Pokey Science Fiction if you ask me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yes. And, as Calvin's father explained, old movies are in Black and White because back that's the way everything really was. We didn't start getting color movies, like The Wizard of Oz until color itself was invented.

  4. Re:Hokey Pokey Science Fiction if you ask me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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