Under the direction of chemist Emily Mevers, the researchers discovered new chemicals in the defense secretions of these ...

Millipedes release chemicals that disorient ants — and those same compounds may also modulate brain receptors in humans. This ...

For over a century, a tiny fossil at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology was wrongly believed to be a caterpillar—or ...

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A fossil misidentified for over a century is now reshaping what scientists know about how life first made the leap from sea ...

At night we saw a vicious predator attacking a much larger prey. In the morning we saw the brightest red blood I have ever ...

The purpose of the nighttime excursion was to find cherry millipedes, many-legged creatures that roam hardwood forests in ...

Millipede chemistry belongs to a narrow lineage. Only species from the subterclass Colobognatha produce terpenoid alkaloids.

Unsurprisingly 300,000,000 years ago, the world was extremely different at ground level. Sprawling forests primarily made of ...

Millipedes get a bad rap -- their many legs put people off and could classify them as "creepy crawly." But these anthropods' secretions could hold the ...

Chemist Emily Mevers and her team recently discovered a new set of complex structures in millipede secretions that can ...

Millipedes, often dismissed as creepy crawlies, may hold the secret to future painkillers and neurological drugs. Researchers ...