Well, gold in color.
The unique fossil specimens are described in a paperpublishedtoday inCurrent Biology.
They look as if they could just get up and scuttle away.
The holotype of the newly discovered specimen (top), and a 3D model derived from CT scanning (bottom).Image: Luke Parry (photograph), Yu Liu, Ruixin Ran (3D models).
Lomankusenvironment in life didnt have much oxygen, which helped to preserve the specimens in layers of sediment.
There are more species of arthropod than any other group of animals on Earth, Parry said.
The fossils are rare examples of specimens that are as informative as they are pretty.
A life reconstruction of Lomankus. lllustration: Xiaodong Wang.
Some pyrite is fooling us twice over, as crystals of the stuffcan contain real gold, too.
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And now we know what their faces looked like, thanks to new research.
It’s not yet known whether it poses a disease risk to humans.
