Scientists find bacteria with taste for caveman art

Sunday, June 16, 2002

MADRID, Spain -- Scientists studying a speck of pigment from a 16,000-year-old cave painting have found mysterious bacteria they suspect may be nibbling on the Sistine Chapel of Paleolithic art.

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