A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by fool's gold. The new species, which is distantly related to arachnids such as scorpions and ...

University of Oxford associate prof Luke Parry called the fossils "spectacularly preserved" A 450-million-year-old fossil of an ancient relative of spiders has been discovered preserved in 3D by ...

"Chimerarachne fills the gap between Palaeozoic arachnids with tails known from rocks (uraraneids) and true spiders, and the fact the new fossils have been wonderfully preserved in Burmese amber ...