recently suggested pyrite – fool’s gold – could be a source of lithium as well. The researchers analyzed 15 sedimentary rock samples from the Appalachian basin. They were dated to the middle ...

The fossil was found at a site at the famous Beecher's Trilobite Bed in New York State, a layer of rock containing multiple well-preserved fossils. The animals preserved there lived in a hostile, low ...

The 450-million-year-old fossilized corpse of a new spider species has been discovered preserved by fool’s gold. A research team ... a layer of rock which is famously home to many well-preserved ...

Learning that a shiny rock is fool's gold rather than the valuable mineral is generally cause for disappointment. But for scientists who discovered a new 450-million-year-old arthropod preserved ...

The famous layer of rock in Cleveland, NY is known for containing numerous well-preserved fossils. The newest find was entirely preserved in fool’s gold, creating a “spectacularly preserved ...

The 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool’s gold. The new species has been called Lomankus edgecombei, and is distantly ...

a layer of rock containing multiple well-preserved fossils. The animals preserved there lived in a hostile, low oxygen environment. That allowed iron pyrite, commonly known as fool's gold ...

Near a river in upstate New York (not pictured), a deceptive rock held something valuable ... The stones are made of iron pyrite, commonly called fool’s gold, and look deceptively similar ...