The ancient creature measures just under half-an-inch in size.
Researchers have identified a new, tiny species of millipede in 99-million-year-old amber from the southeast Asian nation of Myanmar.
“Even more impressively, it lived in times when terrific dinosaurs and huge arthropods roamed the Earth,” he said. “For example, ancient millipedes of the genus Arthropleura that inhabited North America and Scotland some 315 to 299 million years ago are known to have reached 230 centimeters in length. As for Burmanopetalum inexpectatum’s habitat, it was most likely a ground-dweller in warm temperate forests of dense pine- and Sequoia-like trees, liverworts and ferns.
To analyze the specimen and confirm its novelty, the team used an advanced new technology known as 3D X-ray microscopy, which enabled them to reconstruct a digital model of the animal's body and observe tiny traits that are rarely preserved in fossil. The results revealed a number of unusual characteristics: so unusual, in fact, that the scientists had to create a new suborder to classify it.
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