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.
