#arthropleura — Public Fediverse posts

Биолог рассказал о самой большой многоножке в истории: она была крупнее человека
https://www.unian.net/ecology/samaya-bolshaya-mnogonozhka-v-istorii-interesnye-fakty-o-arthropleura-13268445.html
#unian #Arthropleura #многоножка #животные

https://www.europesays.com/ie/303024/ It Was Longer Than A Person #Arthropleura #arthropods #Carboniferous #CarboniferousPeriod #centipede #Éire #EvolutionaryBiology #GiantArthropods #GiantMillipede #IE #Ireland #Paleobiology #paleontology #Science

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

Theme of the Month over at my Discord server is "Bugs"!

This time going for an actual insect lol
This is an Arthropleura gal, a giant millipede from the Carboniferous Period.
It's also Golden Week, so I decided to throw a gold bikini on her :D

I wonder if I should keep her as an OC, she'd need a name.
#Anthro #Bug #Arthropleura #Millipede #Insect #GoldenWeek #Bikini #TotM

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#paleontology #arthropods #Arthropleura

An article published in the journal "Science Advances" reports the results of the reconstruction of the body and in particular of the head of an Arthropleura, a genus of millipedes that lived between 350 and 290 million years ago. A team of researchers subjected some of the fossils discovered in France in the 1980s to a CT scan that allowed them to obtain details that were previously hidden in the rock and 3D reconstructions.
https://english.netmassimo.com/2024/10/23/a-reconstruction-of-arthropleura-an-ancient-millipede-that-may-have-been-over-2-5-meters-long/

World’s largest arthropod lived 300 million years ago. Now, fossils show what it really looked like

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/10/18/science/arthropleura-giant-arthropod-fossil
#Arthropleura

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"

EDGE Science has a new episode out and it's about everyone's favorite massive land arthropod: the glorious #arthropleura !

(This video explains the point I've made MANY times that huge bugs do NOT require high O2 levels. So arthropleura could live with us today! And there is nothing to stop the "apple-sized ants" plan. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ6n2Kn5k8M

Today's not-so-random portfolio artwork (following on from #Arthropleura) is a life-size model of a #Pneumodesmus (15cm long), which I built for MUSE – the Science Museum of Trento, in 2014.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Devonian

Today's random portfolio artwork is a life-size model of a small Arthropleura (40cm long – they grew to 250cm long), which I built for MUSE – the Science Museum of Trento, in 2014.

#Art #Painting #PaleoArt #PalaeoArt #SciArt #SciComm #DigitalArt #Illustration #Dinosaurs #Birds #Reptiles #Palaeontology #Paleontology #Arthropleura #Carboniferous

@otterlove
oh how I wish
for the great diplopodes
of carboniferous swamps
with thousands of feet
on the detritus of trees
they would calmly feast
those ancient millipedes

#Arthropleura
#Carboniferous
#DeepTime
#millipedes
#poetry

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