Arthropleura

Would you like to learn about the biggest centipede to have ever existed? Dive in to this post and hope you don't get...

TERRIFIED!!!

This centepide was huge (as you can see from the image) so you would not like to meet one. Trust me, it would be scary. At full-grown especially, reaching about 2.5m in lenght. If you want, here is another image.

They lived in Europe and North America for more than 50 million years between the early carborniferous and the early Permian. Some fosill trackways found in Nova Scotia, Canada, tell us that Arthropleura had short and closley-packed legs wich means it was very slow. For a long time it was thought that Arthropleura died out during an event known as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. However, recent fosills dated to the permian show Arthropleura. This means that the Arthropleura suvived. It might have went extinct due to early repties.

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