Along with many spiders, pseudoscorpions, and flies discovered and catalogued by the cave explorers, a tiny threadlike millipede was found in the unexplored dark marble caves in Sequoia National Park.
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The discovery of the first millipede with more than 1,000 legs is reported in Scientific Reports this week. Prior to this, no millipede had been found with more than 750 legs.
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Dec 16, 2021
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Taylor Swift, U.S. singer-songwriter known for hits such as "Shake It Off" and "You Belong With Me", has earned a new accolade—she now has a new species of millipede named in her honor.
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A mysterious line where two millipede species meet has been mapped in northwest Tasmania, Australia. Both species are common in their respective ranges, but the two millipedes cross very little into each other's territory. ...
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Dec 23, 2011
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As night falls in certain mountain regions in California, a strange breed of creepy crawlies emerges from the soil: Millipedes that glow in the dark. The reason behind the glowing secret has stumped biologists until now.
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Sep 26, 2011
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With 750 legs, the millipede Illacme plenipes is the leggiest animal on Earth. Once believed extinct, scientists rediscovered the species in 2005—more than 80 years after it was first described. This exceedingly rare millipede ...
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Nov 14, 2012
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Even though we are led to believe that during the Cretaceous the Earth used to be an exclusive home for fearsome giants, including carnivorous velociraptors and arthropods larger than a modern adult human, it turns out that ...
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In 2010, ant researchers Christian Peeters and Stéphane De Greef spotted chains of bluish ants dragging a huge millipede in Phnom Kulen National Park, Cambodia. Each ant bit on a constriction on the abdomen of the ant ahead ...
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Jun 27, 2016
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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.
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Jul 29, 2023
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Hearing the words "new species discovered" may conjure images of deep caves, uncharted rainforests, or hidden oases in the desert.
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