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 ...

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 ...

AAnthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by the spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic lower vertebrates (cattle, sheep, goats, camels ...

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

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

Speaking of Passion, Anthrax's mascot the Not Man is undergoing what Palmiotti calls a "nuclear makeover" for the Among the Living OGN, as redesigned by The Walking Dead's Greg Nicotero.

Anthrax emerged as a biological weapon in Europe in World War I. Japan began producing the bacteria for use as a weapon in the 1930s. The United States experimented with biologic agents such as ...

News Peg. Five countries in East and southern Africa—Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe—are in the midst of major anthrax outbreaks, the WHO’s office in the region warned on Monday ...

Sporadic outbreaks of anthrax in wild animals, cattle and people are not uncommon in these countries. But having five outbreaks simultaneously “is probably a little odd, and that’s probably ...