By analyzing the isotopic composition of the pink pigment, the team learned that these tiny cyanobacteria were the dominant base of the food chain at the time. It was bacteria generating all ...

Pink—which may go back over a billion years—was once the color of fierce ancient hunters, powerful French women, and yes, boys. Pink has long beguiled humans—used to dye clothing and tint ...

This not only affects humans and animals, but bacteria as ... proteins and coloured pigments," the Kaiserslautern professor continues. In the case of blue-green algae, a pink coloured pigment ...