A fossil misidentified for over a century is now reshaping what scientists know about how life first made the leap from sea ...

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 ...

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

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

Neotype of Palaeocampa anthrax from the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte and rediscovered in the Invertebrate Paleontology collection of the MCZ.  The faint red and blue grid lines from a wax pencil can still ...