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Thousands of flamingos dine on colourful bacteria in this rainbow lake

7 November 2018

Lake Bogoria in Kenya is home to a colourful range of microbial life and attracted 1.3 million flamingos that feasted on colourful cyanobacteria

A pair of colourful eggs

Birds have their dinosaur ancestors to thank for their colourful eggs

31 October 2018

A careful look at dinosaur fossil eggs suggests colourful eggs evolved just once – in the group of dinosaurs that eventually gave rise to birds

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