A thousand legs, to be sure. A millipede with a world-record number of legs – over a thousand!
In an abandoned gold mine shaft in Western Australia, scientists unearthed a world-record-breaking millipede 60 meters deep. The newly discovered millipede may have as many as 1,306 legs, according to scientists. This is a genuine world record; the previous longest millipede had 750 legs. For the first time, their English name, tysicnoga (millipede), which was … Read more