"Many of the ancient rock paintings maintain vivid colours because they have been colonised by bacteria and fungi, such as the black fungus, *Chaetothyriales.* The pigments originally applied may have initiated an ongoing, symbiotic relationship between black fungi and red bacteria."

So, in other words, the cave paintings are partially a living creature!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwion_Gwion_rock_paintings