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

At night we saw a vicious predator attacking a much larger prey. In the morning we saw the brightest red blood I have ever ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

First found in 2018 near Los Angeles, the millipede serves as proof to scientists that new species can still be uncovered in our own backyard. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest ...