Leggiest Creature!
– – When something has more than four legs, it generally tends to inspire a cringe factor. Something with 750 legs would definitely then register high on the creepy and gross-out scale, and this little beauty is so compact as well; a white millipede named Illacme plenipes, which is Latin for “the pinnacle plentiful feet,” and measures a mere 1 – 3 centimeters long.
Found only in a small area of Northern California and looking like a thread, the millipede also boasts a rudimentary fused mouth with no known function, and hairs on its back that produce a silk-like product.
A useless mouth, and 750 legs (at least in the females)! A related species in Puerto Rico only has 742. I thought you’d get a kick out of that…
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FOXSYLVANIA 
November 17, 2012 at 5:34 pm
And, maybe you’ll get a kick out of this old chestnut:
What goes “999/ thump! 999/thump?”
A millipede with a peg-leg!
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November 18, 2012 at 1:45 am
There’s no beating the classics!
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