Giant millipedes as long as a car and weighing 50 kg (110 lbs) once hunted across Northern England, experts have revealed, following the discovery of a 326 million-year-old fossil. The largest-ever fossil of a giant millipede was found by a “fluke” on a Northumberland beach at Howick after a section of cliff fell onto the shore. In order to get so big, the creature, known as Arthropleura, must have found a nutrient-rich plant diet and may even have been predators, feasting on other invertebrates or small amphibians. The specimen is made up of multiple articulated exoskeleton segments, broadly similar in form to modern millipedes. Experts believe the fossil represents just a section of the creature’s exoskeleton that it shed near a river bed, which was then preserved by sand. The segment is about 75 centimeters long, leading scientists to believe its entire body could have measured around 2.7 m (8.8 …