Some centipedes don’t swim by paddling their many legs, but by wiggling their body from tail to head – the opposite direction of motion that snakes use to move across water. Kelimar Diaz at the ...

Most millipedes defend themselves by curling into a ball, but one found in a Virginia national park secretes toxic cyanide compounds to ward off predators NPS Photos/Marie Pinto More stories about ...

Deemed to never see the light of the day, a new species of endemic, troglobiont centipede was discovered by an international team of scientists in the Romanian cave Movile: a unique underground ...

Creepy, crawly, newly discovered. The latest critter to emerge from the Japanese archipelago is an 8-inch-long, 1-inch-wide centipede, the first to be identified in Japan in nearly 150 years. A paper ...

A new species of endemic, troglobiont centipede was discovered by an international team of scientists in the Romanian cave Movile: a unique underground ecosystem, isolated several millions years ago ...