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 ...

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.

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 ...

Ancient millipedes once reached sizes far beyond anything alive today. Newly analyzed fossils show that some species grew long enough and strong enough to rival large modern animals. Researchers link ...

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 ...