- Experts found the pigment that produces ginger colouration in fossilised frogs
- It suggests that gingers have been around for 10 million years, they say
These days, being a natural redhead is somewhat of a rarity.
But gingers have actually been around for 10 million years, scientists say.
Experts have discovered fragments of phaeomelanin – the pigment that produces ginger colouration – in fossilised frogs.
And they say their findings will help palaeontologists reconstruct the original colours of species that have long been extinct.
The team, led by researchers at University College Cork, performed lab experiments on black, ginger and white bird feathers to track how phaeomelanin pigments degrade during the fossilisation process.
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