Step back into the Carboniferous period, when colossal arthropods dominated the land 345-290 million years ago. Among these ancient creatures was Arthropleura, a remarkable millipede that ...

Arthropleura is an enormous arthropod—one of a group of invertebrates ... looking beast may have actually been the “cow of ...

This time period took place 359 to 299 million years ago. 3 min read The Carboniferous period, part of the late Paleozoic era, takes its name from large underground coal deposits that date to it.

Carboniferous of Europe, a swampy palaeoenvironmental setting with tree-like Lepidodendron (lycopsids) forming a dense forest. Also shown is stem of a giant horsetail -- calamites (the one growing ...

They point to spininess in other arthropods of the late Carboniferous era, such as trigonotarbids and millipedes–which didn’t exhibit spines in their earlier relatives, as evidence that spines ...