Fossilized iridescent colors

Via National Science Foundation (from geology.com)

… A team of paleontologists and ornithologists has now discovered
evidence of vivid iridescent colors in fossil feathers more than 40
million years old.

The finding, published online August 26 in the journal Biology Letters, signifies the first evidence of a preserved color-producing nanostructure in a fossilized feather…

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