Giant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England fossil reveals

Largest ever specimen, a 2.7 meter-long creature known as Arthropleura, discovered by ‘fluke’ on UK beach. A section of Arthropleura’s exoskeleton was found by a ‘fluke’ on Howick beach by a Cambridge University scientist. Photograph: Neil Davies/PA– PA Media Last modified on 2021 …