The fossil that deceived Harvard: scientists solve the evolutionary mystery of 160 years

A centenary fossil formerly considered as a worm now rewrites the history of the evolution of arthropods as the first known non -marine lobopodian. A hidden fossil at the Harvard comparative zoology museum (MCZ) turned out to be a major discovery in the history of the evolution of early animals. Documented for the first time in 1865 and labeled by mistake […]