A plan to eliminate rats on Alcatraz, home to the famous old prison in San Francisco Bay, led to the discovery of an unfamiliar glowing creature never before seen on the island. In early 2012, ...

If you thought you had seen a real millipede, think again. The first ever true millipede with over 1,000 legs has been discovered in western Australia. According to a peer-reviewed study published in ...

A plan to eliminate rats on Alcatraz, home to the famous old prison in San Francisco Bay, led to the discovery of an unfamiliar glowing creature never before seen on the island. In early 2012, ...

Like many folks, I never paid much attention to millipedes — those wormlike, multilegged creatures that crawl about in the leaf litter and hide under logs and rocks on the forest floor. But now, I ...

The creature is so small and so thin, that if you didn't give it much notice, you may dismiss it as a bit of thread. But examined under a microscope, the wriggling specimen with its 486 legs and ...

Five new spooky-looking species of millipede have been discovered, one of which belongs to a totally unknown group of critters. The new species, which resemble something out of a sci-fi movie, were ...

Scientists have finally found a millipede that lives up to its name. Eumillipes persephone has 1,306 legs — that's more than any other animal — and is the only known millipede to exceed 1,000 legs.

Our home is being invaded. Well, that’s a bit dramatic, but where are all these millipedes coming from? Every day, mostly in the evening, I find millipedes crawling through the house. As I try to pick ...

Bioluminescence unpacked The faint blue-green glow of this millipede redefines how we look at the evolution of bioluminescence across the tree of life. Not seen for nearly 50 years, the small, blind ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A plan to eliminate rats on Alcatraz, home to the famous old prison in San Francisco Bay, led to ...

If you thought you had seen a real millipede, think again. The first ever true millipede with over 1,000 legs has been discovered in western Australia. According to a peer-reviewed study published in ...

Bioluminescence unpacked The faint blue-green glow of this millipede redefines how we look at the evolution of bioluminescence across the tree of life. Not seen for nearly 50 years, the small, blind ...