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

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

A century-old fossil long mislabeled as a caterpillar has been reidentified as the first-known nonmarine lobopodian—rewriting what we know about ancient life. Discovered in Harvard’s museum drawers, ...