Palaeontologists have announced the discovery of a truly gigantic millipede on a beach in England.
Scientists from Texas have identified the tiny fossil of a millipede that lived more than 425 million years ago.
A remarkably well preserved millipede dating back 99 million years has been unearthed in Myanmar.
Scientists in the UK have discovered a previously unknown species of millipede at an old Welsh coal mine.
An invasion of millipedes in Australia is believed to have been responsible for a train crash.