1 millipede, 1,306 legs: worldΓÇÖs leggiest animal discovered hiding in WA

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December We just discovered the worlds leggiest animal hiding in Western Australia 1 millipede, 1,306 legs: worldΓÇÖs leggiest animal discovered hiding in WA 17/12/2021 | 5 MINS This article by Dr Bruno Buzatto, from the School of Biological Sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Conversation on December 17. Millipedes were the first land animals, and today we know of more than 13,000 species. There are likely thousands more species of the many-legged invertebrates awaiting discovery and formal scientific description. The name ΓÇ£millipedeΓÇ¥ comes from the Latin for ΓÇ£thousand feetΓÇ¥, but until now no known species had more than 750 legs. However, my colleagues and I recently found a new champion. The eyeless, subterranean Eumillipes persephone, discovered 60 metres underground near the south coast of Western Australia, has up to 1,306 legs, making it the first ΓÇ£true millipedeΓÇ¥ and the leggiest animal on Earth. Finding life underground In Australia, most species in some groups of invertebrates are st

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December We just discovered the worlds leggiest animal hiding in Western Australia 1 millipede, 1,306 legs: worldΓÇÖs leggiest animal discovered hiding in WA 17/12/2021 | 5 MINS This article by Dr Bruno Buzatto, from the School of Biological Sciences at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Conversation on December 17.

Millipedes were the first land animals, and today we know of more than 13,000 species.

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