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Actual colors of ancient life forms
By detecting minute traces of original pigments in fossils, X-ray imaging at synchrotrons has given scientists the chemical evidence needed to discover the actual colors of ancient life forms.
Greg Stewart/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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