A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

The fossil, Palaeocampa anthrax, was first described in 1865. Since then, it shifted labels—from worm to millipede to marine ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers redescribe Palaeocampa anthrax as the first known nonmarine lobopodian, and the youngest ever discovered. The fossil, which ...

When a string of misidentifications ended, a fossil sat in a drawer at Harvard for a century until its significance was ...

The neotype of Palaeocampa anthrax from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte and rediscovered in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection of the Museum of ...