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Pretty glad the 9 foot long Arthopleura centipede went extinct 300 million years ago. No one wants to deal with that thing.
by thundergolfer 10mo ago
Pretty glad the 9 foot long Arthopleura centipede went extinct 300 million years ago. No one wants to deal with that thing.
- kkylin 10mo agoWe've still got this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois Thankfully they don't live on land.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoThat's fresh nightmare fuel all right
- hermitcrab 10mo agoNot really bothered by snakes, sharks or spiders. But those things (and cave centipedes) look terrifying.
- adrian_b 10mo agoIt was a millipede, not a centipede, which probably ate fungi or decaying plants. So it was not a dangerous predator, though it could have been poisonous, like many modern millipedes.