SAN FRANCISCO -- Twenty squirming foot-long millipedes in a falsely labeled package from Germany were seized at San Francisco International Airport last month, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection ...

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This giant millipede was the largest known invertebrate to ever live on land. So how did it get so big? Eons is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, ...

An estimated 4,300 species are missing to science, meaning that they haven’t been seen in the wild for decades, but they’re likely not extinct. Eager to rediscover some of these species, an expedition ...

Before dinosaurs, it was giant bugs that roamed the Earth, or at least northern England, scientists say. In a new study published on Tuesday, scientists confirmed that a fossil discovered in 2018 is ...

Fossils are incredible things. They have the power to teach us the beauty—and terror—that existed long before we roamed the Earth. And one of the more recent discoveries errs on the creepier side.

A fossil of a giant millipede found on a beach in northern England has revealed the "biggest bug that ever lived," paleontologists say. The fossil was discovered in January 2018 in a chunk of ...

Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...

Q: This worm-sized, non-worm appeared in the garden near my stumpery. Plant pest? Beneficial? I’m stumped! A: Stumperies are lovely garden features, like a vignette of the forest floor, that I wish ...

In the Iringa Region of Tanzania, a small creature was found wandering a pine tree plantation. Twalib Aladin via Unsplash Scuttling under the pines at a plantation in the highlands of Tanzania, a long ...