The arthropleura, an 8-foot-long giant millipede that lived 345-290 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period, was one of the largest terrestrial species of its time, predating even the ...

Millipedes come in one basic shape but many sizes. When they aren’t curled into a tight ball, millipedes are easily ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

The fossil, Palaeocampa anthrax, was first described in 1865. Since then, it shifted labels—from worm to millipede to marine ...

In a new study published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers redescribe Palaeocampa anthrax as the first known nonmarine lobopodian, and the youngest ever discovered. The fossil, which ...

Millipedes aren’t among the most popular animals in the world. When they are thought of, it’s usually concerning a pest-control problem. There is a dedicated pet community that enjoys taking care of ...

There are a few ways to rid your home of millipedes. The first is to simply vacuum them up with a shop vac or other vacuum. This is easier to do than it sounds, because millipedes typically curl up ...

A group of geologists stumbled on the fossil of the giant creature, known as Arthropleura, during a "social trip" to England's Northumberland region in 2018. It's the largest such fossil ever found.

Scientists have finally found a millipede that lives up to its name. Eumillipes persephone has 1,306 legs — that's more than any other animal — and is the only known millipede to exceed 1,000 ...

A tiny millipede stuck in amber has had 99 million years to contemplate its sticky predicament. The itsy insect didn't live to enjoy its 2019 coming-out party as a scientific curiosity, ...

This story has been updated to correct that a millipede found in California with 750 limbs is one of the world's leggiest, not the leggiest. More from CBS News.