From fossil evidence, millipedes were the first animals adapted to life on land about 425 million years ago. In this new paper, we reconstructed their ancient evolutionary history across nearly half a billion years. 🌎
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Vasquez-Valverde et al. estimate the ancient evolutionary history of millipedes and
analyze the last two remaining unsampled orders, Siphonocryptida and Siphoniulida,
two rare paleoendemics whose plac...
