Giant Millipedes Roamed Northern England.

DTCwordfan | 20:33 Tue 21st Dec 2021 | ChatterBank

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The size of a nini and weighing over 50kg......once hunted across Northern England...according to the DT today and this esteemed journal, https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/national/19798146.giant-millipedes-big-cars-roamed-northern-england-fluke-fossil-find-shows/

Have things changed at all and who are our AB Millipedes - either side of Hadrian's Wall....? Your reasoning appreciated!!

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Damn - I meant 'Mini'

Bobbisox1

Was on our local news DT

Peter Pedant

fell at the feet of a prof of geology

I probably wd have identified it as a fossil ( colour contrast quite vivid) and I used to live on Jurassic coast. Place he was wandering wasnt fossiliferous was it?

Times had it as
screws idea that high oxygen content lead to big big big animals as this was pre
no predators
pre grasses and trees....
developed while England was on the equator ( pt of pangea )

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bit bigger than these two - https://senecaparkzoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Millipede-2008-C-Helen-Dishaw-e1461344135991.jpg