Centipedes and millipedes seem interchangeable, but while one is harmless, the other has a painful bite and could be the sign ...

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The City of Angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: The Los Angeles Thread Millipede. The tiny arthropod was found just underground by ...

If scampering invertebrates give you pause, read no further. Everyone else—meet Eumillipes persephone, a newly discovered species of millipede with an astounding 1306 legs. A ventral view of the legs ...

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Cyanide Millipede: People in different regions call this bug by different names like glass worm and thousand-legged bug. You often spot them around your house during the monsoons. But are these bugs ...

Millipedes, as we’ve known them, have been a lie. The Latin name for the arthropods implies an impressive set of 1,000 feet. Yet no millipede with more than 750 legs has ever been found, until now.

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Greek mythology tells us that not long after a young and incautious Persephone was first taken into the underworld by Hades, she made a gaffe of epic proportions by sampling the cuisine. Down in the ...

No millipede actually has 1000 feet—but the species Illacme plenipes comes closest, with up to 750. Entomologist Paul Marek, who rediscovered the rare species a few years ago in California's coastal ...

A species found deep underground in Western Australia shows that “millipede” is not always a misnomer. By Elizabeth Preston It’s a well-known fact among entomologists that whoever first named the ...

Researchers in Australia have discovered "the first true millipede" – a 3-inch-long creature with 1,306 legs. But that bug doesn't come close to a recently discovered ancestor from more than 300 ...