A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal ...

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

Near a river in upstate New York (not pictured), a deceptive rock held something valuable inside. Hunter Reilly via Unsplash ...

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 ...

The work is published in the journal Current Biology ... resulting in spectacular golden 3D fossils. Pyrite is a very dense mineral, and so fossils from this layer can be CT scanned to reveal hidden ...

Sulfide minerals like pyrite react with oxygen and other minerals ... The researchers published their findings Oct. 9 in the journal Science Advances. "The relationship with temperature appears ...

The stones are made of iron pyrite, commonly called fool’s gold, and look deceptively similar to the much more valuable mineral ... 29 in the peer-reviewed journal Current Biology.

Sulfide minerals like pyrite react with oxygen and other minerals to release ... The researchers published their findings Oct. 9 in the journal Science Advances. "The relationship with temperature ...