A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard. For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest insects ever found was hiding in plain sight, mislabeled as a baby crustacean. The flattened fossil from West Texas looked like little more than a dark smudge on dark shale. Then Erik Tihelka, a paleoentomolo... [5226 chars]
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