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 ...

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.

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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 ...

But the NBA season is 82 games, not four or five, so let’s take a look at these early trends and assess whether they are sustainable, fool’s gold or somewhere in between. The take: The Boston ...

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 ...