A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient creature related to the modern-day spider was recovered encased in fool’s gold in upstate New York. The new species is distantly related to arachnids ...

A newly discovered 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod was found entirely preserved in pyrite–aka fool’s gold. The newly named species Lomankus edgecombei boasts a leg coming out of its head ...

Named Lomankus edgecombei, the arthropod is a remarkably bright golden color because it’s preserved in three dimensions by iron pyrite — a mineral better known as fool’s gold. The fossil ...

The density of pyrite also means the fool's gold material thoroughly filled in tiny areas where the arthropod's body once lay in sediment − including internal body parts, scientists said.

Besides being an extraordinary-looking new scientific species, the specimens are entirely preserved by fool's gold. The work is published in the journal Current Biology. Associate Professor Parry ...

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That was the case for Luke Parry, a paleobiology professor at Oxford University, who announced this week that he had unearthed a fossil in New York state that is perfectly and beautifully preserved in ...