The 450-million-year-old fossilized corpse of a new spider species has been discovered preserved by fool’s gold. A research team from the University of Oxford discovered the fossil at Beecher's ...

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.

You may think you’ve struck it rich before the gold stones disappointingly flake apart in your hands. The stones are made of iron pyrite, commonly called fool’s gold, and look deceptively ...

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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 ...