The new scans of Arthropleura revealed what the creature's head looked like, including its stalked eyes, mandibles and mouthparts. Lheritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) An intriguing ...

The new scans of Arthropleura revealed what the creature's head looked like, including its stalked eyes, mandibles and mouthparts. - Lheritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) An intriguing ...

As juveniles, Arthropleura may have spent more time in the water, before losing the stalked eyes in adulthood. "The stalked eyes remain a big mystery, because we don't really know how to explain ...

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 ...

That would be Arthropleura, believed to be the largest bug to ever exist. But fear not, it's been extinct for more 300 million years. ... The protruding eyes, Lhéritier says, ...

For instance, the new fossils also reveal that Arthropleura had stalklike eyes, rather like a crab, says Lhéritier, and that alone suggests that the creature may have had a lifestyle that ...

The new scans of Arthropleura revealed what the creature's head looked like, including its stalked eyes, mandibles and mouthparts. Lheritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) An intriguing ...

The new scans of Arthropleura revealed what the creature's head looked like, including its stalked eyes, mandibles and mouthparts. - Lheritier et al., Sci. Adv. 10, eadp6362 (2024) An intriguing ...

The arthropod, Arthropleura, lived in forests near the equator between 346 million and 290 million years ago, during the late Paleozoic era.In the oxygen-rich atmosphere at that time, Arthropleura ...

The face of a car-size, millipede-like creature — the largest arthropod ever to live — has finally been revealed thanks to two well-preserved fossils, a new study reports. The CT scans ...