I’m having a difficult time believing this to be true. Squid ink found in a rock dated to 150 million years ago…soft tissue and all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8208838.stm
Can anyone corraborate this as true?
There’s a discussion of this going on in MPSIMS; perhaps someone there can discuss veracity with you.
Note that in the article linked to in the MPSIMS thread, it states that the ink was no longer liquid. It had solidified. The researchers treated a portion of it to make it liquid again:
A tangent: The use of squid ink is a minor plot point in the John Irving novel A Widow for One Year, a lead character of which is a child’s book author and illustrator who likes to use squid ink in his drawings.
Since there’s an active previous thread to this one, let’s close this.
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