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2530 points eatonphil | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 16:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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thundergolfer ◴[10 Dec 25 17:00 UTC] No.46220212[source]▶
Pretty glad the 9 foot long Arthopleura centipede went extinct 300 million years ago. No one wants to deal with that thing.
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1. adrian_b ◴[10 Dec 25 17:15 UTC] No.46220427[source]▶
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.