The colorfulness of our world is self-evident. The question is how many people actually know where the colors were created, how and which one was 'the first'.
What is the first color in the world has finally been discovered. A group of researchers from Australia, Japan and the United States revealed, which one is it the oldest color in the world – old pigments were excavated from 1.1 billion-year-old rocks beneath the Sahara Desert in the Taoudeni Basin of Mauritania, where he once was prehistoric ocean. They found light pink color, which is half a billion years older than the pigments found before it.
The researchers write that the pink pigments are 'molecular fossils' chlorophyll produced by organisms in the ocean, able to carry out photosynthesis. When there is a concentration of these organisms, the color of the fossils varies from red to purple. When they are crushed and diluted, well they become light pink in color.
The researchers add that the discovery of these pigments may explain, why it took millions of years before they on The first signs of animal life detected on Earth. The bacteria that dropped the bright pink color on the rocks dominated at the bottom of the food chain, but they were too small to fed larger organisms, they still write down.
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