{
  "id": 16784637,
  "title": "Paleontologists reveal the hidden role of eye pigments in vertebrate evolution",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/paleontologists-reveal-the-hidden-role-of-eye-pigments-in-vertebrate",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-27T19:00:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-paleontologists-reveal-hidden-role-eye.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Paleontologists at University College Cork have discovered that the evolution of fish is linked to the shape, location and abundance of tiny melanin-rich granules called melanosomes. These features survive in 300-million-year-old fossil fish, suggesting that melanosomes have played a key role in vertebrate evolution since the major fish groups evolved around 445 million years ago.",
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}