Stunning fossil preserved in fool’s gold reveals newly identified 450 million-year-old species ...Egypt

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN  —  A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal into the natural world 450 million years ago. The striking fossil is a newly identified species of arthropod, a distant relative of modern-day horseshoe crabs, scorpions, and spiders, that slightly resembles a modern-day shrimp. The creature lived on the ocean floor during the Ordovician Period (485 million to 444 million years ago) at a time when life had only a tentative foothold on land. Named Lomankus edgecombei

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