Before scientists even knew how many Florida scrub millipedes were left in the wild, a quiet breakthrough happened in a ...

Eleven-time Grammy-winner Taylor Swift has secured herself a place in the history books — but this time, it's one dedicated to bugs, not music. A newly-discovered species of millipede, found in ...

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...

AUSTRALIA -- Millipedes have lots of legs. It's a defining feature of this creature, which is neither worm nor insect. However, despite a name derived from the Latin for thousand (mille) and feet (pes ...

Fossils are incredible things. They have the power to teach us the beauty—and terror—that existed long before we roamed the Earth. And one of the more recent discoveries errs on the creepier side.

If scampering invertebrates give you pause, read no further. Everyone else—meet Eumillipes persephone, a newly discovered species of millipede with an astounding 1306 legs. A ventral view of the legs ...

While Taylor Swift has won all sorts of prestigious awards over the course of her career, getting an arthropod named after her is certainly a first. The twisted-claw millipede was discovered by ...

They invade houses and get into food, bedding and clothes. They stink, stain floors when squashed, and destroy backyard veggie gardens. They are Portuguese millipedes - and every year these feral ...

The City of Angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: The Los Angeles Thread Millipede. The tiny arthropod was found just underground by ...

A new species has 1,306 legs, the most of any creature on Earth. This is an Inside Science story. Millipede means "a thousand feet" in Latin. However, until now, the most legs any millipede was known ...

No millipede actually has 1000 feet—but the species Illacme plenipes comes closest, with up to 750. Entomologist Paul Marek, who rediscovered the rare species a few years ago in California's coastal ...