In the northern mountains of Vietnam, “dragons” don’t appear as giant, fire-breathing reptiles. Instead, the “dragons” hidden ...

Lophoturus sineprocessus, as the new species is named, belongs to an order of millipedes commonly found foraging under bark, ...

Step back into the Carboniferous period, when colossal arthropods dominated the land 345-290 million years ago. Among these ancient creatures was Arthropleura, a remarkable millipede that stretched up ...

The species, named Sinocallipus similis, was found in the aphotic zone – an area completely devoid of light – of Khuoi Lin ...

Millipedes, sometimes called “1,000-legged worms,” are a prime example in the animal kingdom of false advertising. Millipedes are not worms nor do their small bodies yield such an excessive ...

The finding has led scientists to rethink the entire evolution of millipedes which dates back 100 million years.