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The colors of long-dead organisms can be deduced from exceptionally well-preserved fossils. A fossil feather (left) has a melanosome conformation similar to a modern feather (center). (From Jakob Vinther [www.jakobvinther.com/Fossil_color.html].) On the right, an exceptionally well-preserved fossil beetle carapace shows intact blue structural color. (From Derek Briggs [http://people.earth.yale.edu/profile/deb47/content/research].)
