PBS Eons: When Giant Millipedes Reigned

PBS Eons has a new episode.  This one is about the giant millipede Arthropleura, which lived during the Carboniferous Period. Arthropleura fossils are rare and this is one of the largest and the oldest.

This giant millipede was the largest known invertebrate to ever live on land. So how did it get so big??

 

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