This week, scientists have finally unveiled the head of the largest bug ever to exist: an Arthropleura. Researchers have been ...

The team analyzed heads that belonged to two juvenile creatures who were only around 3 cm (1 inch) long. But oxygen levels in ...

COLUMN. For a long time, we didn't know what the head of Arthropleura looked like. Analysis of the animal's first complete ...

The arthropod, Arthropleura, lived in forests near the equator between 346 million and 290 million years ago, during the late ...

The giant bug's topper was a round bulb with two short bell-shaped antennae, two protruding eyes like a crab, and a rather ...

Beauty is in the eye of the bee-holder, especially when it comes to looking at one of the largest bugs ever to live. The ...

During the Carboniferous Period, Earth's atmospheric oxygen levels surged, helping some plants and animals grow to gigantic ...

What's as big as an alligator, with the body of a millipede, the head of a centipede and the eyestalks of a crab? That would be Arthropleura, believed to be the largest bug to ever exist.

A fossil of the giant millipede Arthropleura’s head has been found for the first time, revealing unique features and solving ...

Can you imagine seeing a giant millipede the same size as a car? Well, a massive creature just like this existed 340 million ...

While the new fossils are not from fully grown Arthropleura, some of which reached 2.6 metres long, they reveal important ...

It is a candidate for the largest bug to have ever lived – a nine-foot long millipede which scuttled across the land that ...