alt Hacker NewsPretty 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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adrian_b • last Wednesday at 5:15 PM
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.
We've still got this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_aphroditois
Thankfully they don't live on land.