Scientists have found a head of an Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to ever live | Discovered in 1854, no one had ever managed to find a fossil of the 300-million-year-old millipede that included a head
Scientists have found a head of an Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to ever live | Discovered in 1854, no one had ever managed to find a fossil of the 300-million-year-old millipede that included a head
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>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 million and 290 million years ago.
Not to be confused with the magical liopleurodon.
We are lucky that nature resulted in many organism evolving into smaller versions of themselves. Centipedes, millipedes, spiders, insects are scary enough even when they are small.
And it looks…..more or less exactly how we assumed an *Arthropleura* head would. Way to go, invert palaeo people!