The 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool’s gold. The new ...

“We never expected to find delicate tissues such as feathers preserved in a volcanic rock.” Using electron microscopes and chemical tests, the researchers analysed samples of the fossil ...

“The fossil was first discovered in 1973 ... to undertake its extremely challenging extraction from the rock.” The fossils were in a tidal zone, making their extraction not only difficult ...