Fossil hunters strike gold with new species

ScienceDaily
Oct 29, 2024, 12:06 pm143 pts
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 distant relative of modern-day horseshoe crabs, scorpions, and spiders. It had no eyes, and its small front appendages…

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