While most animals might avoid toxic creatures, the red-fronted lemurs of Madagascar chew and rub toxic millipedes across ...

More than 7,000 species of millipede crawl across forest floors and garden beds, pairs of legs pumping as they move through ...

“We discovered that it had the body of a millipede, but the head of a centipede,” study co-author Mickaël Lheritier, a ...

The surprise discovery of a giant millipede fossil as big as a car in England has provided new clues about why these prehistoric animals evolved to become so massive, according to the Journal of ...

Last summer, evolutionary biologist Xavier Zahnle invited fellow millipede researchers to a visual treat. A PhD student at the University of California, Davis, Zahnle had just produced digital images ...

It was in this environment, deep in the caves at the base of a mountain in Na Hang Nature Reserve, that researchers discovered a new species of pale millipede. The species, named Sinocallipus ...

The piccolo dragon millipede has spots of pink on their spiny backs. Nguyen AD, Vu TTT, Nguyen T-AT (2025) ZooKeys Want to read more? Check out our stories here. Each body ring has four legs and ...

BLACKSBURG, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Ellett Valley millipede under the Endangered Species Act. The milky-white ...