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thundergolfer 3 days ago

Pretty glad the 9 foot long Arthopleura centipede went extinct 300 million years ago. No one wants to deal with that thing.

kkylin 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

We've still got this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois

Thankfully they don't live on land.

swiftcoder 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's fresh nightmare fuel all right

hermitcrab 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Not really bothered by snakes, sharks or spiders. But those things (and cave centipedes) look terrifying.

adrian_b 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It was a millipede, not a centipede, which probably ate fungi or decaying plants.

So it was not a dangerous predator, though it could have been poisonous, like many modern millipedes.