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 ...

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

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

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

SCIENTISTS have uncovered a terrifying mega millipede that was the size of a car when it roamed Earth 340 million years ago.

A fossil of the giant millipede Arthropleura’s head has been found for the first time, revealing unique features and solving ...

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 ...

Two newly discovered fossils are helping scientists wrap their heads around the anatomy of the largest arthropod of all time — a millipede that grew longer than a king-sized bed and lived between 346 ...

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

Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder, especially when it comes to looking at one of the largest bugs ever to live. The ...

The arthropod hid in forests near close to the equator millions of years ago (Picture: Getty) Scientists have uncovered a car ...