A female millipede’s sexual organs—a pair of vulvae—are located in the third body segment from the head. When she is ready to mate, she pushes her vulvae out from behind her legs. The male grabs her ...

Size-wise, the insect could grow up to a massive 8.5 feet long and weigh over 45kg, and while the arthropod has similar qualities to a millipede, recent findings show the head is actually more ...

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.

BLACKSBURG, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to protect the Ellett Valley millipede under the Endangered Species Act. The milky-white ...