Tag: biological

  • ‘World’s oldest’ biological colours found

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    The pink pigments produced by cyanobacteria more than 1.1b years ago are some 500m years older than previous colour pigment discoveries Sydney: Australian researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest biological colour in the Sahara desert, in a find they said on Tuesday helped explain why complex lifeforms only recently emerged on earth. The pink pigments […]

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