Giant millipedes as long as cars roamed northern England, fossil reveals
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Largest ever specimen, a 2.7 metre-long creature known as Arthropleura, discovered by fluke' on UK beach
Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50kg once hunted across northern England, experts have revealed, following the discovery of a 326m-year-old fossil.
The largest fossil of a giant millipede was found by a fluke" on a Northumberland beach at Howick, after a section of cliff fell on to the shore.
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