The hunt for the world’s most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the seventies, researchers have discovered. The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic ...

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 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, ...