#arthropleura — Public Fediverse posts

From the vault: my Arthropleura (Carboniferous) model for Muse - Museo delle Scienze di Trento (2015). This is a smaller one, just 50cm long, but they grew to be over 2m long.

#SciArt #SciComm #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #Paleontology #Palaeontology #JurassicWorld #Arthropleura #Carboniferous

I totally forgot it was time for a new episode of @KateShaw 's podcast, only to find out it's about one of the best animals ever, millipedes!!

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/25/episode-447-so-many-legs/

#fossils
#millipedeMonday
#arthropods
#arthropleura
#centipedes

I totally forgot it was time for a new episode of @KateShaw 's podcast, only to find out it's about one of the best animals ever, millipedes!!

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/25/episode-447-so-many-legs/

#fossils
#millipedeMonday
#arthropods
#arthropleura
#centipedes

I totally forgot it was time for a new episode of @KateShaw 's podcast, only to find out it's about one of the best animals ever, millipedes!!

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/25/episode-447-so-many-legs/

#fossils
#millipedeMonday
#arthropods
#arthropleura
#centipedes

I totally forgot it was time for a new episode of @KateShaw 's podcast, only to find out it's about one of the best animals ever, millipedes!!

https://strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.net/2025/08/25/episode-447-so-many-legs/

#fossils
#millipedeMonday
#arthropods
#arthropleura
#centipedes

Beautiful cover of the latest issue of the Science Advances journal, featuring a fossil of Arthropleura, the largest arthropod of all time.

https://www.science.org/toc/sciadv/10/41

#Paleontology #Arthropleura #arthropod #fossil #carboniferous #myriapod #MontceauLesMines #science #cover #art #coverart #ScienceAdvances

Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-biggest-bug-earth.html

Head anatomy and #phylogenomics show the #Carboniferous giant #Arthropleura belonged to a millipede-centipede group https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adp6362

"The giant bug's topper was a round bulb with two short bell-shaped antennae, two protruding eyes like a crab, and a rather small mouth adapted for grinding leaves and bark"

Two #Mazothairos chase off a passing #Meganeura in a late Carboniferous swamp, startling a little #Archaeothyris. A #Sclerocephalus crawls ashore a little ways away, not realising there's a hidden #Arthropleura right there.

I've never really drawn paleoart set in the Carboniferous before, so I thought I'd start with the very basic 'giant bugs flying around in a swamp' trope.

#paleoart #carboniferous #insect #synapsid #temnospondyl #millipede #MyArt

Two #Mazothairos chase off a passing #Meganeura in a late Carboniferous swamp, startling a little #Archaeothyris. A #Sclerocephalus crawls ashore a little ways away, not realising there's a hidden #Arthropleura right there.

I've never really drawn paleoart set in the Carboniferous before, so I thought I'd start with the very basic 'giant bugs flying around in a swamp' trope.

#paleoart #carboniferous #insect #synapsid #temnospondyl #millipede #MyArt

Two #Mazothairos chase off a passing #Meganeura in a late Carboniferous swamp, startling a little #Archaeothyris. A #Sclerocephalus crawls ashore a little ways away, not realising there's a hidden #Arthropleura right there.

I've never really drawn paleoart set in the Carboniferous before, so I thought I'd start with the very basic 'giant bugs flying around in a swamp' trope.

#paleoart #carboniferous #insect #synapsid #temnospondyl #millipede #MyArt

Two #Mazothairos chase off a passing #Meganeura in a late Carboniferous swamp, startling a little #Archaeothyris. A #Sclerocephalus crawls ashore a little ways away, not realising there's a hidden #Arthropleura right there.

I've never really drawn paleoart set in the Carboniferous before, so I thought I'd start with the very basic 'giant bugs flying around in a swamp' trope.

#paleoart #carboniferous #insect #synapsid #temnospondyl #millipede #MyArt

Two #Mazothairos chase off a passing #Meganeura in a late Carboniferous swamp, startling a little #Archaeothyris. A #Sclerocephalus crawls ashore a little ways away, not realising there's a hidden #Arthropleura right there.

I've never really drawn paleoart set in the Carboniferous before, so I thought I'd start with the very basic 'giant bugs flying around in a swamp' trope.

#paleoart #carboniferous #insect #synapsid #temnospondyl #millipede #MyArt