Which color is the world’s oldest color?

Question

The research that was published in PNAS journal tells that the color was created by cyanobacteria which was a dominant presence on Earth before algae, some 65 million years ago. This was even before dinosaurs existed on Earth.

Priya Agrawal · Accepted Answer

Scientists discovered that the world’s oldest known color is a bright pink pigment found in ancient rocks deep beneath the Sahara Desert in Mauritania. Researchers said these pigments were produced by tiny ancient organisms called cyanobacteria that lived about 1.1 billion years ago.

The pigments were discovered by scientists from Australian National University. After extracting and analyzing the molecules from the rocks, they identified the ancient biological pigment as a form of bright pink....

Meetali Asiwal · Answer

Researchers have recently discovered that Bright Pink is the world’s oldest color. It is a naturally occurring color found in the fossils of chlorophyll, as the scientists claim. The fossils are found to be 1.1 billion years old. It is the oldest color created by a living organism, cyanobacteria, whose fossils were found in Sahara Desert in rocks.

The research that was published in PNAS journal tells that the color was created by cyanobacteria which was a dominant presence on Earth before alga...