Newly Discovered Millipede Has More Than 1,000 Legs

(Inside Science) -- Millipede means "a thousand feet" in Latin. However, until now, the most legs any millipede was known to have was 750 with Illacme plenipes from California.
"This new millipede with 1,306 legs nearly doubles the number of legs of the previous record-holder," said study lead author Paul Marek, an entomologist at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg.

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