Fossilized remains of ancient millipedes with mammalian ancestry
David P. Gronewald
Ancient millipedes may have become desperate to scavenge for animal remains after the devastating plant extinction at the end of the Permian period about 252 million years ago. This could reveal how these normally herbivorous creatures survived after the most devastating mass extinctions on Earth.
David Grunewald of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and colleagues working in South Africa’s Karoo Basin report the discovery of early mammalian fossils.
