Birds shimmered at least 40 million years before custom car paints, according to a new look at old fossils.
FIRST GLIMMER A 40-million-year-old fossil feather from Germany shows the first fossil evidence of bird color that doesn’t come from pigments. The original feather would have looked iridescent, though researchers aren’t sure exactly what its color would have been.
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