Arthropods

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Carboniferous】Arthropleura – The Head of a 2.6-Meter Giant Millipede Went Missing for 170 Years

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Carboniferous】Meganeura – The Giant Dragonfly Darting Through Forests Did Not Fit Its Wings

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Megarachne – The “Largest Spider Ever” Was a Sea Scorpion All Along

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Cambrian】Hurdia – Named as a Crustacean Shell, Assembled Into One Animal 97 Years Later

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Cambrian】Titanokorys – Mostly Head: The “Swimming Head” That Raked the Seafloor Mud

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Devonian】Brontoscorpio – The Largest Scorpion Ever Known Carries a Name Given to a Woodlouse

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Devonian】Jaekelopterus – The “Largest Arthropod Ever” Was Sized From a Single Claw

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Silurian】Pneumodesmus – Whether It Is the Oldest Air-Breathing Animal Still Depends on the Age of the Rock

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Devonian】Pterygotus – The Giant Sea Scorpion Named as a “Winged Fish”

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【Life of the Silurian】Eurypterus – Thousands of Fossils, Almost All of Them Molted Shells

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Ordovician】Horseshoe Crab – A 445-Million-Year-Old Fossil That Already Looked Like Today’s

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Ordovician】Isotelus – At 72 cm, the Largest Trilobite Lived in Tropical Shallows