#millipedes — Public Fediverse posts

Nothing was stopping this little traveler. It found trouble on the road, took one look, and kept moving like it had somewhere important to be.🥹

#nature #wildlife #SoilLifeSim #millipedes

Nothing was stopping this little traveler. It found trouble on the road, took one look, and kept moving like it had somewhere important to be.🥹

#nature #wildlife #SoilLifeSim #millipedes

Gardener finds millipedes in all 8 raised beds, and Reddit says it’s a sign the soil is thriving https://www.allforgardening.com/1852560/gardener-finds-millipedes-in-all-8-raised-beds-and-reddit-says-its-a-sign-the-soil-is-thriving-2/ #garden #gardening #GardeningIreland #millipedes #reddit #SoilHealth #TomatoPlant

Gardener finds millipedes in all 8 raised beds, and Reddit says it’s a sign the soil is thriving https://www.allforgardening.com/1852560/gardener-finds-millipedes-in-all-8-raised-beds-and-reddit-says-its-a-sign-the-soil-is-thriving-2/ #garden #gardening #GardeningIreland #millipedes #reddit #SoilHealth #TomatoPlant

Scientists solve millipede mystery, and find they beat vertebrates onto land by 80 million years

Scientists now think millipedes may have established themselves on land earlier than fossils currently show — and that…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #CA #Canada #evolutionaryhistory #land #millipedes #PaulMarek #vertebrate #VirginiaTech
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/744441/

https://www.europesays.com/ie/541134/ Scientists solve millipede mystery, and find they beat vertebrates onto land by 80 million years #Éire #EvolutionaryHistory #IE #Ireland #Land #millipedes #PaulMarek #Science #Vertebrate #VirginiaTech

I didn't realize the millipede evolutionary tree was this incomplete until recently (holes are assumed; the fossil record has its issues).
Also, they were apparently the first animals adapted to life on land.

Link: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00640-8

#Millipedes #Evolution

I didn't realize the millipede evolutionary tree was this incomplete until recently (holes are assumed; the fossil record has its issues).
Also, they were apparently the first animals adapted to life on land.

Link: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00640-8

#Millipedes #Evolution

Long before #vertebrates walked on land, #millipedes had the place to themselves.

Hundreds of millions of years before #dinosaurs arrived, these early decomposers were helping establish Earth's terrestrial ecosystems.

But despite their ancient history, scientists still hadn't fully unraveled their evolutionary story.

Now, an international tesm of scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede #evolution, revealing new clues about a group of #animals that helped pave the way for #life on land.

Millipedes beat vertebrates onto land by more than 80 million years.

They set the stage for later life on land, including humans and vertebrates.

#biology
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-evolutionary-history-millipede-dating-million.html

Paper by Vasquez-Valverde et al. (2026):
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(26)00640-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982226006408%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Long before #vertebrates walked on land, #millipedes had the place to themselves.

Hundreds of millions of years before #dinosaurs arrived, these early decomposers were helping establish Earth's terrestrial ecosystems.

But despite their ancient history, scientists still hadn't fully unraveled their evolutionary story.

Now, an international tesm of scientists has solved one of the last major mysteries in millipede #evolution, revealing new clues about a group of #animals that helped pave the way for #life on land.

Millipedes beat vertebrates onto land by more than 80 million years.

They set the stage for later life on land, including humans and vertebrates.

#biology
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-evolutionary-history-millipede-dating-million.html

Paper by Vasquez-Valverde et al. (2026):
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(26)00640-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982226006408%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

12-Jun-2026
Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131802

#science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

12-Jun-2026
Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131802

#science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

12-Jun-2026
Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131802

#science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

12-Jun-2026
Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131802

#science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

12-Jun-2026
Ancient #millipedes still had secrets to tell
Researchers completed the first evolutionary history of Earth’s first #landAnimals, pushing their origins tens of millions of years deeper into the past.

I would have called it: On the origin of millipedes ...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1131802

#science #evolution #animals #terrestrial

#Taxonomy!

"_Mammamia_ gen. n. […] Etymology: The name derives from the Italian exclamation 'Mamma mia' which came to our mind when we first saw this astonishing species. Gender feminine."

Akkari N, Stoev P, Enghoff H (2011) Two new cavernicolous genera of Julidae (Diplopoda, Julida), with notes on the tribe Brachyiulini and on julid subanal hooks and anchors. _ZooKeys_ 114: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.114.1490 :OpenAccess:

(via a Discord I'm in)

#OpenAccess #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Julidae

Saw this cool millipede (might be a a yellow-spotted millipede? Harpaphe haydeniana?) in a little day hike last Sunday. Ended up seeing several, but they were so cool.

#millipedes #pnw #cascadia #insects

Saw this cool millipede (might be a a yellow-spotted millipede? Harpaphe haydeniana?) in a little day hike last Sunday. Ended up seeing several, but they were so cool.

#millipedes #pnw #cascadia #insects

Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html

#HackerNews #fossils #evolution #millipedes #centipedes #underwater #biology

Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-ancient-sea-fossils-millipede-centipede.html

#HackerNews #fossils #evolution #millipedes #centipedes #underwater #biology

I've been wanting to take some photos of this one!! Finally did it in my last walk 🧡 #millipedes #nature #photo #photography #macrophotography #insects #bug #venezuela

I've been wanting to take some photos of this one!! Finally did it in my last walk 🧡 #millipedes #nature #photo #photography #macrophotography #insects #bug #venezuela

I had just gotten home and was taking pics of the bristle millipedes that come out at night to browse the lichen on the stonework, when a neighbour, a middle-aged lady I sort of recognized but had never really spoken to, passed by and asked what I was doing, if I was making a movie or whatever. I explained I was looking at bugs and showed her the bristle millipedes. She excitedly said she liked bugs as well, cicadas and beetles and butterflies and such, and we mutually enthused for a few minutes. I guess talking to neighbours is sometimes worth it.

#bugstodon #arthropods #millipedes #BristleMillipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

I had just gotten home and was taking pics of the bristle millipedes that come out at night to browse the lichen on the stonework, when a neighbour, a middle-aged lady I sort of recognized but had never really spoken to, passed by and asked what I was doing, if I was making a movie or whatever. I explained I was looking at bugs and showed her the bristle millipedes. She excitedly said she liked bugs as well, cicadas and beetles and butterflies and such, and we mutually enthused for a few minutes. I guess talking to neighbours is sometimes worth it.

#bugstodon #arthropods #millipedes #BristleMillipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

I had just gotten home and was taking pics of the bristle millipedes that come out at night to browse the lichen on the stonework, when a neighbour, a middle-aged lady I sort of recognized but had never really spoken to, passed by and asked what I was doing, if I was making a movie or whatever. I explained I was looking at bugs and showed her the bristle millipedes. She excitedly said she liked bugs as well, cicadas and beetles and butterflies and such, and we mutually enthused for a few minutes. I guess talking to neighbours is sometimes worth it.

#bugstodon #arthropods #millipedes #BristleMillipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

I had just gotten home and was taking pics of the bristle millipedes that come out at night to browse the lichen on the stonework, when a neighbour, a middle-aged lady I sort of recognized but had never really spoken to, passed by and asked what I was doing, if I was making a movie or whatever. I explained I was looking at bugs and showed her the bristle millipedes. She excitedly said she liked bugs as well, cicadas and beetles and butterflies and such, and we mutually enthused for a few minutes. I guess talking to neighbours is sometimes worth it.

#bugstodon #arthropods #millipedes #BristleMillipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

How poison #frogs built a chemical weapons system one step at a time https://phys.org/news/2026-04-poison-frogs-built-chemical-weapons.html

Experimental evidence supports gradual #evolution of alkaloid sequestration in poison frogs: Adriana Jeckel et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2067/20253144/480951/Experimental-evidence-supports-gradual-evolution

"toxins released by #PoisonFrogs, #alkaloids, are derived from their diet in the wild, consisting of specific #ants, #mites, #millipedes, & #beetles... the process developed gradually over time, with poison frogs slowly adapting to increasingly toxic diets"

How poison #frogs built a chemical weapons system one step at a time https://phys.org/news/2026-04-poison-frogs-built-chemical-weapons.html

Experimental evidence supports gradual #evolution of alkaloid sequestration in poison frogs: Adriana Jeckel et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2067/20253144/480951/Experimental-evidence-supports-gradual-evolution

"toxins released by #PoisonFrogs, #alkaloids, are derived from their diet in the wild, consisting of specific #ants, #mites, #millipedes, & #beetles... the process developed gradually over time, with poison frogs slowly adapting to increasingly toxic diets"

How poison #frogs built a chemical weapons system one step at a time https://phys.org/news/2026-04-poison-frogs-built-chemical-weapons.html

Experimental evidence supports gradual #evolution of alkaloid sequestration in poison frogs: Adriana Jeckel et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2067/20253144/480951/Experimental-evidence-supports-gradual-evolution

"toxins released by #PoisonFrogs, #alkaloids, are derived from their diet in the wild, consisting of specific #ants, #mites, #millipedes, & #beetles... the process developed gradually over time, with poison frogs slowly adapting to increasingly toxic diets"

How poison #frogs built a chemical weapons system one step at a time https://phys.org/news/2026-04-poison-frogs-built-chemical-weapons.html

Experimental evidence supports gradual #evolution of alkaloid sequestration in poison frogs: Adriana Jeckel et al. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2067/20253144/480951/Experimental-evidence-supports-gradual-evolution

"toxins released by #PoisonFrogs, #alkaloids, are derived from their diet in the wild, consisting of specific #ants, #mites, #millipedes, & #beetles... the process developed gradually over time, with poison frogs slowly adapting to increasingly toxic diets"

anyone need some bristle millipedes, I have plenty

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

anyone need some bristle millipedes, I have plenty

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

anyone need some bristle millipedes, I have plenty

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

anyone need some bristle millipedes, I have plenty

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenidae

In other news the tiny bristle millipedes that live in the garden wall have finally emerged!

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

In other news the tiny bristle millipedes that live in the garden wall have finally emerged!

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

In other news the tiny bristle millipedes that live in the garden wall have finally emerged!

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

In other news the tiny bristle millipedes that live in the garden wall have finally emerged!

#bugstodon #myriapods #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

Die kleinen füsschenschlangen sind heute irgendwie ziemlich aktiv 🥰
Normalerweise sind sie ja sonst eher im dunkeln unterwegs.

#tausendfußer #millipedes

Die kleinen füsschenschlangen sind heute irgendwie ziemlich aktiv 🥰
Normalerweise sind sie ja sonst eher im dunkeln unterwegs.

#tausendfußer #millipedes

🦊🐛 In the forests of #Madagascar, #lemurs have learned to use #millipedes as a specialized form of #medicine.

By gently biting the #insects, the #primates trigger the release of defensive #chemicals that act as a potent repellent against #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes. The lemurs rub the secretions into their fur and even ingest small amounts to treat internal parasites. The toxins cause a brief, trancelike state.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs-licking-millipedes-bbc

#wildlife #nature #science #biology #chemistry #evolution #BBC #animals

🦊🐛 In the forests of #Madagascar, #lemurs have learned to use #millipedes as a specialized form of #medicine.

By gently biting the #insects, the #primates trigger the release of defensive #chemicals that act as a potent repellent against #malaria-carrying #mosquitoes. The lemurs rub the secretions into their fur and even ingest small amounts to treat internal parasites. The toxins cause a brief, trancelike state.

👉 https://www.discoverwildlife.com/tv/lemurs-licking-millipedes-bbc

#wildlife #nature #science #biology #chemistry #evolution #BBC #animals

A small millipede (species unknown) crawling around outside a house in Tamil Nadu. It would lift and droop and move its two short antennae as it ambled along.

#millipedes #arthropods #nature

A small millipede (species unknown) crawling around outside a house in Tamil Nadu. It would lift and droop and move its two short antennae as it ambled along.

#millipedes #arthropods #nature

bristle millipede, why not

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

bristle millipede, why not

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

bristle millipede, why not

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

bristle millipede, why not

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

bristle millipede, why not

#bugstodon #millipedes #Myriapoda #Diplopoda #Polyxenida #Polyxenidae

Visible here is a #Julida #diplopode, a taxon with ca 750 species worldwide. #Diplopods are important decomposers of #deadwood or #leaflitter; their high food requirements and corresponding excrements make them important #humusproducers. Despite the name #millipedes, almost all diplopods have no more than 750 #legs. An exception is #Eumillipes #persephone (Siphonotidae) described by P. E.Mark et al.(2021),with 1,306 legs.
©#StefanFWirth 2025

Ref
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02447-0

#Photos
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