Nature has used 21 different ways over the last 4.5 billion years to create pyrite (aka Fool’s Gold) -- the mineral world’s champion of diverse origins. Pyrite forms at high temperature and ...
Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...
The stones are made of iron pyrite, commonly called fool’s gold, and look deceptively similar to the much more valuable ...
Named Lomankus edgecombei, the arthropod is a remarkably bright golden color because it’s preserved in three dimensions by iron pyrite — a mineral ... Tuesday in the journal Current Biology ...
Thanks to the mineral pyrite, its exquisite preservation offers ... The findings were published in the journal Current ...