Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A fossil found in sandstone near the England-Scotland border ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The specimen is made up of multiple articulated exoskeleton ...

The giant millipede Arthropleura, seen in this reconstruction, was nearly 9 feet long, as big as a car. Researchers in Australia have discovered "the first true millipede" – a 3-inch-long creature ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have confirmed the existence of the largest bug to ever exist — a millipede that was “as big as a car,” weighed more ...

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 ...

Before dinosaurs, it was giant bugs that roamed the Earth, or at least northern England, scientists say. In a new study published on Tuesday, scientists confirmed that a fossil discovered in 2018 is ...

Fossils are incredible things. They have the power to teach us the beauty—and terror—that existed long before we roamed the Earth. And one of the more recent discoveries errs on the creepier side.

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Researchers in Australia have discovered "the first true millipede" – a 3-inch-long creature with 1,306 legs. But that bug doesn't come close to a recently discovered ancestor from more than 300 ...