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animalculum@scholar.social ("Lukas VFN 🇪🇺") wrote:
Scientists recreate the head of this ancient 9-foot-long bug
https://phys.org/news/2024-10-scientists-biggest-bug-earth.htmlHead 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"
