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 ...

A fossil uncovered by chance on a remote beach in northern England has revealed one of the most extraordinary creatures to ...

Four new millipede species have been discovered in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, highlighting ongoing biodiversity ...

Locating them took real physical effort. Scientists working in cave discover creatures straight out of mythology — here's ...

The Ellett Valley millipede would be the first millipede protected under the Endangered Species Act. The law currently ...

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 ...

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 ...

Before dinosaurs, it was giant bugs that roamed the Earth, or at least northern England, scientists say. In a new study published on Tuesday, scientists confirmed that a fossil discovered in 2018 is ...

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 ...

In 1953, a new pest was discovered in Port Lincoln, South Australia - the black Portuguese millipede. And there wasn't just one millipede found - there was a plague of them! In big numbers this ...