In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Millipedes come in one basic shape but many sizes. When they aren’t curled into a tight ball, millipedes are easily ...

Perfuze, an Ireland-based developer of catheters for interventional stroke care, recently announced preliminary results from ...

Millipedes aren’t among the most popular animals in the world. When they are thought of, it’s usually concerning a pest-control problem. There is a dedicated pet community that enjoys taking care of ...

There are a few ways to rid your home of millipedes. The first is to simply vacuum them up with a shop vac or other vacuum. This is easier to do than it sounds, because millipedes typically curl up ...

Scientists have finally found a millipede that lives up to its name. Eumillipes persephone has 1,306 legs — that's more than any other animal — and is the only known millipede to exceed 1,000 ...

First 'true' millipede with over 1,000 legs discovered deep below Earth's surface Emerging from a drill hole in Western Australia, a new record holder for leggiest animal on the planet.

This story has been updated to correct that a millipede found in California with 750 limbs is one of the world's leggiest, not the leggiest. More from CBS News.

This is the Los Angeles thread millipede, whose introduction last month in the journal ZooKeys officially welcomed it among the other roughly 13,000 named millipede species worldwide.

A group of geologists stumbled on the fossil of the giant creature, known as Arthropleura, during a "social trip" to England's Northumberland region in 2018. It's the largest such fossil ever found.

A tiny millipede stuck in amber has had 99 million years to contemplate its sticky predicament. The itsy insect didn't live to enjoy its 2019 coming-out party as a scientific curiosity, ...

Female millipede genitals are housed in a sealed, vulvular box. Males use pointy, spiky gonopods ("sex legs") to poke that box open and insert sperm into a female millipede's neck.