The biggest arthropod to ever exist discovered by scientists

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Researchers in the U.K. have found the fossilized exoskeleton of the largest arthropod to have ever lived. These giant millipede-like creatures were the length of a car and likely roamed Earth during the Carboniferous Period, between 359 million and 299 million years ago.

Researchers discovered the new Arthropleura fossil, which is around 326 million years old, inside a fragmented block of sandstone on a beach in Northumberland in northeast England in 2018. The exoskeleton fragment is 2.5 feet (75 centimeters) long and 1.8 feet (55 cm) wide.

This means the individual that molted it would have been around 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) long and weighed around 110 pounds (50 kilograms), according to the researchers.

"These would have been the biggest animals on land in the Carboniferous," lead researcher Neil Davies, a geologist at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge in England, told Live Science.

Source - https://www.livescience.com/giant-ancient-millipedes-uk

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imagine groups of them hunted by turning into balls and rolling down a hill until they hit an animal 

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imagine groups of them hunted by turning into balls and rolling down a hill until they hit an animal 

This isn’t Pokémon.