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July 9, 2018

On July 9, 2018, researcher, Dr. Nur Gueneli, discovered that bright pink might be the world’s oldest biological pigment. The ancient pink pigments were discovered in 1.1-billion-year-old marine shale rocks found deep beneath the Sahara Desert in the Taoudeni Basin of Mauritania, West Africa. The pigment was produced by cyanobacteria that was fossilized in the … Continue reading

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