Chemist Emily Mevers and her team recently discovered a new set of complex structures in millipede secretions that can ...

Millipede chemistry belongs to a narrow lineage. Only species from the subterclass Colobognatha produce terpenoid alkaloids.

Millipedes, often dismissed as creepy crawlies, may hold the secret to future painkillers and neurological drugs. Researchers ...

Defensive secretions from a millipede found in Virginia Tech’s Stadium Woods could unlock new treatments for neurological ...

Unsurprisingly 300,000,000 years ago, the world was extremely different at ground level. Sprawling forests primarily made of ...

Millipedes come in one basic shape but many sizes. When they aren’t curled into a tight ball, millipedes are easily ...

Millipedes get a bad rap — their many legs put people off and could classify them as "creepy crawly." But these anthropods' secretions could hold the ...

Perfuze, an Ireland-based developer of catheters for interventional stroke care, recently announced preliminary results from ...

The arthropleura, an 8-foot-long giant millipede that lived 345-290 million years ago during the late Carboniferous period, was one of the largest terrestrial species of its time, predating even the ...

Millipedes, sometimes called 1,000-legged worms, are essential decomposers that break down dead matter in forests — such as fallen leaves — into vital minerals that are returned to the soil.