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 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool's gold (Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models)/PA Wire) ...

Lomankus edgecombei is a distant relative of modern-day horseshoe crabs, scorpions, and spiders. ... Greg Edgecombe, from the Natural History Museum in London, ...

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 ...

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. Puget Sound arthropods ...

Named Lomankus edgecombei, ... The species, which belongs to an extinct group called megacheira, was named after arthropod expert Greg Edgecombe. - courtesy Luke Parry/Yu Liu/Ruixin Ran.

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.