Imagine a world where colossal millipedes ruled the land. Enter the Arthropleura, an 8-foot giant that dominated Earth’s ...

Imagine a world where colossal millipedes ruled the land. Enter the Arthropleura, an 8-foot giant that dominated Earth’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Watch this video to uncover how scientists use great white shark teeth to estimate their size, and how they apply similar ...

A 437-million-year old scorpion was the earliest known creature to venture from sea onto land, a new study has found, shedding new light on one of the earliest chapters in the planet’s evolutionary ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Centipedes and millipedes belong to the subphylum of arthropods called myriapoda. In Greek, ...

The new large millipede species was discovered in Colombia’s department of Boyacá, in the foothills of the Andes, about 1,600 feet above sea level, according to a study. Ricky Beron via Unsplash ...