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.

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

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

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

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

Perfuze, an Ireland-based developer of catheters for interventional stroke care, recently announced preliminary results from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

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.