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Old March 31st, 2016 #32
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A fossilized snake shows its true colors



Artistic representation of the snake, classified in the Colubridae family, as it would have appeared in life.

Ten million years ago, a green and black snake lay coiled in the Spanish undergrowth. Once, paleontologists would have been limited to the knowledge they could glean from its colorless fossil remains, but now they know what the snake looked like and can guess how it acted. Researchers reporting on March 31 in Current Biology have discovered that some fossils can retain evidence of skin color from multiple pigments and structural colors, aiding research into the evolution and function of color.

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-fossili...-true.html#jCp
 
 

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