In a stunning reversal of more than a century of misidentification, researchers have revealed that a fossil long thought to be a caterpillar, millipede, or marine worm is actually a lobopodian—an ancient, soft-bodied relative of modern arthropods. Even more surprising, it lived in freshwater, not the ocean. This makes Palaeocampa anthrax the first known nonmarine … Read more
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