Austria's oldest preserved dyes detected in Miocene snail shells

PHYSorg
Feb 8, 2024, 10:20 am120 pts
Pigments in fossil snail shells from Austria dating back 12 million years are the oldest known preserved dyes from the polyene group, as scientists from the Natural History Museum Vienna and the University of Göttingen have now demonstrated. The research is published in the journal Palaeontology.

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