An article published in the journal “Science Advances” reports the results of the reconstruction of the body and in particular of the head of an Arthropleura, a genus of millipedes that lived between 350 and 290 million years ago. A team of researchers subjected some of the fossils discovered in France in the 1980s to a CT scan that allowed them to obtain details that were previously hidden in the rock and 3D reconstructions. These are small Arthropleura and it’s not certain that they would have reached the over 2.5 meters estimated for their maximum length but they still offer information on these giant myriapods. In another article published in the same journal, paleobiologist James Lamsdell of West Virginia University describes the history of studies of these millipedes.