Scientists in France solved the evolutionary mystery of this prehistoric monster, which resembles both the centipedes and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

While the new fossils are not from fully grown Arthropleura, some of which reached 2.6 metres long, they reveal important ...

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

A new reconstruction of Arthropleura— the largest known land invertebrate—shows it was a 'missing link' between millipedes ...

rather than a predator like centipedes. It could have served the same role in its ecosystem as elephants today or big ...