A fossil uncovered by chance on a remote beach in northern England has revealed one of the most extraordinary creatures to ...

Imagine a world where colossal millipedes ruled the land. Enter the Arthropleura, an 8-foot giant that dominated Earth’s landscapes 345-290 million years ago, long before dinosaurs appeared. Join us ...

The face of a car-size, millipede-like creature — the largest arthropod ever to live — has finally been revealed thanks to two well-preserved fossils, a new study reports. The CT scans virtually ...

The video uncovers the rise of an enormous millipede-like creature that once navigated dense prehistoric forests. It examines how unusual environmental conditions allowed this invertebrate to grow far ...

If you think finding a centipede in your living room is bad, get a load of its (very) distant cousin. Illustration: Lhéritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) Millions of years before the ...

Can you imagine an 8-foot-long millipede crawling across the forest floor? That’s the Arthropleura, a giant creepy-crawly that lived over 300 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period.

A team of paleontologists has described a shockingly large millipede fossil that was found on an English beach in 2018. The millipede that left the fossil was well over 8 feet long and may have been a ...