Cave Yields One of the World's Most Unusual Creatures
A newly discovered inch-long millipede has more legs than the chorus line at Radio City Music Hall.
by Douglas Main
Nov 18, 2016
2 minutes
Researchers have discovered a well-heeled new millipede species in a cave in central California’s Sequoia National Park. The millipede has 414 legs—making it one of the leggiest creatures on Earth. It also boasts 200 poison glands and four gonopods, the millipede equivalents of penises.
, a cave biologist, found a single male of the species under
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