Centipedes and millipedes seem interchangeable, but while one is harmless, the other has a painful bite and could be the sign ...

Like many folks, I never paid much attention to millipedes — those wormlike, multilegged creatures that crawl about in the leaf litter and hide under logs and rocks on the forest floor. But now, I ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — The City of Angels, a ...

Five new spooky-looking species of millipede have been discovered, one of which belongs to a totally unknown group of critters. The new species, which resemble something out of a sci-fi movie, were ...

At night, we saw a vicious predator attacking a much larger prey. In the morning, we saw the brightest red blood I have ever seen. We were not anywhere near African big game. A larval insect was the ...

The creature is so small and so thin, that if you didn't give it much notice, you may dismiss it as a bit of thread. But examined under a microscope, the wriggling specimen with its 486 legs and ...

LOS ANGELES >> 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 ...

The backstory: Four years ago, naturalists Cedric Lee and his colleague James Bailey were searching for a rare type of slug at Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park. They found something with 486 more legs.