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 ...

A long-misidentified fossil, once thought to be a caterpillar, has revealed itself as a groundbreaking discovery in early animal evolution.

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

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 ...

ImagesA fossil specimen misidentified since its discovery during the Civil War and correctly identified by a University of Michigan researcher reveals ...

A fossil specimen misidentified since its discovery during the Civil War and correctly identified by a University of Michigan researcher reveals an evolutionary leap: It marks the first time this line ...

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