Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A piece of black shale embedded with golden-hued fossils. It was long thought that pyrite — a shiny mineral also known as fool's ...

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Crack open a slab of black shale in southwestern Germany and you might spot something that looks like metal. A fossil shell, 183 million years old, still catching the light like a freshly polished ...

A recent study found that many of the fossils from Germany's Posidonia shale do not get their gleam from pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold, which was long thought to be the source of the shine.

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a ...

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A fossil that appears to shine like gold has been quietly misleading scientists for decades. Found in black shale deposits in southwest Germany, these 183-million-year-old remains, mostly ammonites, ...

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, ...

Microscopic analysis of coal from Western Kachchh reveals a unique, petal-like mineral formation that sheds light on ...

All that glitters is not gold, or even fool’s gold in the case of fossils. A recent study by scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and collaborators found that many of the fossils from ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool’s gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei, is a ...