The species, Lomankus edgecombei, was discovered at New York's Beecher's Trilobite Bed, a site famous for exceptional preservation that reveals fossils in stunning detail.

Bizarre species found preserved in fool’s gold reveals the secrets of scorpions There are more species of arthropod than any other group of animals on Earth – we know now more about their history ...

The new fossil, named Lomankus edgecombei, after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe of London's Natural History Museum, belongs to a group called megacheirans, an iconic group of arthropods with a ...

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that formed in fool’s gold.

The new fossil, named Lomankus edgecombei, after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe of London’s Natural History Museum, belongs to a group called megacheirans, an iconic group of arthropods with a ...

A distant relative of spiders and scorpions is the new namesake of a Natural History Museum scientist. While the fossil of Lomankus edgecombei might be preserved in iron pyrite, or fool’s gold, Dr ...

The species, Lomankus edgecombei, was discovered at New York's Beecher's Trilobite Bed, a site famous for exceptional preservation that reveals fossils in stunning detail.

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. It’s a ...