Millipedes ‘as big as cars’ once roamed England
21 December 2021The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede – as big as a car – has been found on a beach in the north of England.
Opinion: Our 500 million-year-old nervous system fossil shines a light on animal evolution
29 February 2016Javier Ortega-Hernández (Department of Zoology) discusses what the discovery of the earliest known fossilised nervous system could tell us about evolution.
Amazing feet of science: Researchers sequence the centipede genome
25 November 2014What 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 7,000 fewer than a human.
Feeding limbs and nervous system of one of Earth’s earliest animals discovered
27 February 2013Unique fossils literally ‘lift the lid’ on ancient creature’s head to expose one of the earliest examples of food manipulating limbs in evolutionary history, dating from around 530 million years ago.
