Giant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England, fossil reveals

[UngulateNerd92]

Largest ever specimen, a 2.7 metre-long creature known as Arthropleura, discovered by ‘fluke’ on UK beach

Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50kg once hunted across northern England, experts have revealed, following the discovery of a 326m-year-old fossil.

The largest fossil of a giant millipede was found by a “fluke” on a Northumberland beach at Howick, after a section of cliff fell on to the shore.

In order to get so big, the creature, known as Arthropleura, must have found a nutrient-rich plant diet and may even have been a predator, feasting on other invertebrates or small amphibians.

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[TeaLovingDave]

Certainly this find - which took place only a stone's throw from one of my regular birdwatching spots, as it happens - is pretty interesting, but it does always annoy me when the media reports long-established information as if it is a new discovery the existence of Arthropleura has long-since been established - there is a fairly well-known trackway in southeast Scotland left by a member of the species which I have seen on many occasions, as it happens.

 

[UngulateNerd92]

Certainly this find - which took place only a stone's throw from one of my regular birdwatching spots, as it happens - is pretty interesting, but it does always annoy me when the media reports long-established information as if it is a new discovery the existence of Arthropleura has long-since been established - there is a fairly well-known trackway in southeast Scotland left by a member of the species which I have seen on many occasions, as it happens.

You certainly have valid points! The way it was phrased was misleading... It was the largest Arthropleura ever found though.