Millipedes beat vertebrates to land by 80 million years

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For hundreds of millions of years before dinosaurs appeared and long before vertebrates ventured onto land, millipedes were already thriving on Earth's surface.

These humble decomposers played a key role in some of the planet's earliest terrestrial ecosystems. Yet despite their remarkable history, major questions about their evolution remained unanswered.

Now, an international team led by Virginia Tech researchers has filled in one of the final gaps in ...

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