BBCNEWS BBC News December 21, 2021 16:25:00
326 million years ago. then, the north—east of england would have had a tropical climate. dr neil davies from cambridge university told us more about the discovery. discovered by chance. we were out on the beach, just looking around at the rocks for a bit of a geological holiday, and as the sun was setting we saw that there was a boulder that had fallen from the cliff face, split down the middle. and then just looked inside and realised there was a big fossil there. so i went back the following morning and, yeah, we realise that it was a gigantic millipede in the middle of this rock. because...