Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as "creepy crawly." But these anthropods' secretions could hold the ...

A fossilized brain from a 500-million-year-old sea creature shows unexpected spider-like features, hinting that spiders and their kin may have evolved in the ocean—not on land.

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

Discover which U.S. states and cities have the highest rat populations, including Chicago, the “rat capital,” and learn the ...

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, ...

Half a billion years ago, a strange sea-dwelling creature called Mollisonia symmetrica may have paved the way for modern ...

Spiders and their arachnid relatives may have actually originated in the sea, according to analysis of an "exquisitely ...

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 ...

The fossil, Palaeocampa anthrax, was first described in 1865. Since then, it shifted labels—from worm to millipede to marine ...

The arthropleura, an 8-foot-long giant millipede that lived 345-290 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period, was one of the largest terrestrial species of its time, predating even the ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...