Millipedes ‘as big as cars’ once roamed England
21 Dec 2021 The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede – as big as a car – has been found on a beach in the north of England.
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Opinion: Our 500 million-year-old nervous system fossil shines a light on animal evolution
29 Feb 2016 Javier Ortega-Hernández (Department of Zoology) discusses what the discovery of the earliest known fossilised nervous system could tell us about...
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Amazing feet of science: Researchers sequence the centipede genome
25 Nov 2014 What it lacks in genes, it certainly makes up for in legs: the genome of the humble centipede has been found to have around 15,000 genes – around 7...
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