Learning that a shiny rock is fool’s gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in ...

A stunning 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, perfectly preserved in fool’s gold or iron pyrite, has been unearthed.

Learning that a shiny rock is fool's gold rather than the valuable mineral ... a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved in iron pyrite, the substance could be considered priceless.

The ancient, gilt creatures represent a new species, and hint at the anatomy of an iconic group of arthropods.

Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an ...

A new 450-million-year-old fossil arthropod, preserved in 3D by iron pyrite (fool’s gold), has been unveiled by scientists. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is distantly related to spiders ...

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 ...

Beneath approximately six metres of glacial overburden, Trench 1-2024 revealed multiple high-grade gold samples in addition ...

From 3.0 to 9.32 m a section of oxidized and argillic altered volcanic rocks with abundant iron oxides was intersected ...