Gigantic millipedes 'as big as cars' once roamed around England, scientists discover
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dailystar.co.uk326 million years ago - pre-dating dinosaurs.Named the Arthropleura, it is thought to be the largest-ever invertebrate animal in history, and was found in Northumberland – a few miles down the road from Newcastle.Just one of the three segments found measures around 75 centimetres long, which makes the entire animal possibly measuring around 2.7 metres in length.It is thought to weigh around 50 kilograms, according to a new report in the Journal of the Geological Society.It was discovered in January, 2018, among large blocks of sandstone which had eroded off a cliff in Howick Bay.The man behind the team who found it, Dr Neil Davies from Cambridge University's Department of Earth Sciences, said: “It was a complete fluke of a discovery.“The.
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