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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Defensive secretions from a millipede found in Virginia Tech’s Stadium Woods could unlock new treatments for neurological ...

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

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 ...

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 ...