English paleontologists discovered the fossil of the biggest insect that ever lived in history in exploration since January 2018. The research is by scientists at the University of Cambridge, who found the remains of the animal on a beach in northern England.
At 55 cm wide and up to 2.65 meters long, the insect was the size of a car and weighed 50 kg. Thus, it assumes the position of the greatest invertebrate of all times.
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Researchers identify the fossil as the third Arthropleura found and estimate that the insect lived 326 million years ago. The other two fossils were found in Germany and are smaller.
“Finding these giant millipede fossils is rare because once they die, their bodies tend to disarticulate. So it’s likely that the fossil is a mutable shell that the animal eliminated while growing up,” says Neil Davis, lead author of the study.
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