Long before humans walked the Earth, millipedes weren’t tiny ground crawlers - they were giants. Fossils reveal that some species grew over 6 feet long, making them the largest known land ...

A big sandstone boulder had fallen from a nearby cliff and split in two, revealing the fossilized body segments of a giant arthropod - some kind of enormous ancient millipede.

The biggest terrestrial arthropod is the coconut crab, Birgus latros, is considered to be the size limit for land arthropods. It's a big animal, but it weighs only about 4 kg.

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott in 1918, it was initially classified as a crustacean. Despite ...

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

The giant arthropod 'Arthropleura', which roamed the Earth over 300 million years ago, combined traits of millipedes and centipedes, new fossils have revealed.

“The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod,” Phil Trans R Soc B, 377:20210034, 2022. Ancestral Bacteria May Have Invaded Early Eukaryotic Cells . Prev. Now ...

A newly discovered three-eyed relative is disappointingly unrelated to the eerie three-eyed ravens of Game of Thrones.But this Cambrian-era beast is a relative of today’s insects and boasts some ...

Ancient fossil sheds big light on evolution mystery: Solving a 100-year arthropod mystery. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 04 / 250408191653.htm ...