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 ...

Long before dinosaurs dominated the landscape, a colossal millipede relative the length of a family car crawled through what is now northern England. Newly analyzed fossils, including a rare glimpse ...

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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.

Arthropleura were huge, had a bunch of legs, and likely scavenged on dead bodies. How charming. And now we know what their faces looked like, thanks to new research. Reading time 3 minutes Millions of ...

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 ...