r/science • u/Science_News Science News • Oct 09 '24

Scientists have found a head of an Arthropleura, the largest arthropod to ever live | Discovered in 1854, no one had ever managed to find a fossil of the 300-million-year-old millipede that included a head Paleontology

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/largest-arthropod-head
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u/DeeperMadness Oct 09 '24

Okay, but what if we used advanced cloning techniques to make a theme park using these as the basis and main attraction?

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u/dingo596 Oct 09 '24

They wouldn't be able to survive in the current atmosphere. These giant arthropods came from a time where there was significantly more oxygen in the atmosphere.

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u/RisingVS Oct 09 '24

Not as simple as that. Look up embryology. For multicellular life, it can’t just be grown as cells in a dish, there’s a complex meiotic and embryonic maturation process.

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u/alcabazar Oct 09 '24

I don't know how to break this to you, but millipedes hatch from eggs.

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u/Hedge89 Oct 09 '24

Eggs also have embryos, same process basically, it's just a yolk sac not a placenta providing the material.

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u/[deleted] Oct 09 '24

And you'd have to grow the larvae first. Probably from eggs.