Scientists say they have discovered the largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede on a beach in Northumberland, totally by chance.
The fossil segment was first spotted in 2018 when a large block of sandstone fell on to a beach at Howick Bay."It was a complete fluke of a discovery," said Dr Neil Davies, from Cambridge's Department of Earth Sciences, who has been analysing the 75cm-long fossil. When the giant millipede lived, 326 million years ago, the north-east of England had a much more tropical climate than today.This specimen was found in what researchers believe was an old river channel. It may well not actually be the fossil of a dead creature, but an exoskeleton that was shed as the massive millipede grew.
At that size, a 'meterpede'?
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