Researchers have wondered how an alligator-size arthropod lived more than 300 million years ago. The discovery of an intact ...

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic ...

Can you imagine seeing a giant millipede the same size as a car? Well, a massive creature just like this existed 340 million ...

For 170 years, most of what we've known of the largest bug to ever live on Earth came from discarded headless casings with ...

The arthropod, Arthropleura, lived in forests near the equator between 346 million and 290 million years ago, during the late ...

Arthropleura were huge, had a bunch of legs, and likely scavenged on dead bodies. How charming. And now we know what their ...

COLUMN. For a long time, we didn't know what the head of Arthropleura looked like. Analysis of the animal's first complete ...

Scientists knew that it had a millipede-like body, with two pairs of legs per segment, but Arthropleura ’s exact place in the ...

Lhéritier is pursuing his doctorate in ancient myriapods, an arthropod group that includes millipedes and centipedes ... solve other riddles about the giant animal, including what it ate and ...

Scientists have produced a mug shot after studying fossils of juveniles that were complete and very well preserved, if not ...

What's as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would ...

It is a candidate for the largest bug to have ever lived – a nine-foot long millipede which scuttled across the land that ...