Imagine a millipede so large it could be mistaken for a small car. That was Arthropleura, the largest land arthropod known to science. Fossils show it roamed the Carboniferous forests, feeding on ...

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(CNN) — For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like animal named Arthropleura that used its many legs to roam Earth more than 300 million ...

For more than a hundred years, scientists have been chasing the face of a creature so large and bizarre it feels almost mythical. Arthropleura, a colossal millipede-like beast that scuttled through ...