This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The silverfish. You’ve seen them crawling up your wall, cozying up in that stack of old newspapers or cardboard boxes, and maybe in your bathroom. Ancestors of these nuisance insects are among the most primitive known to man. They evolved around the mid-Devonian period. That’s over 350 million years ago! […]

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