Observatory: Images of Fossil Birds Show Ancient Pigments

Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 16:30 in Paleontology & Archaeology

One of the biological molecules scientists have identified in specimens more than 100 million years old is still active today in some creatures. In humans, it colors brown eyes and dark hair.

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