Others are not so great—like week-long heat advisories and unwelcome house guests in the form of creepy, crawly millipedes. When the weather takes a turn in late spring or summer, we unwillingly ...

Fortunately, since they pose no real risk of harm, millipedes can be repelled using simple staples found in nearly every ...

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.

In the mountains of northern Vietnam, two “dragon” creatures were discovered on the limestone. Minh Triet via Unsplash In the northern mountains of Vietnam, “dragons” don’t appear as ...

You can read her work at sukanyacharuchandra.com. View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “Eating millipede secretions may be a way of self-medication,” Louise Peckre, a doctoral ...

Millipedes, sometimes called “1,000-legged worms,” are a prime example in the animal kingdom of false advertising. Millipedes are not worms nor do their small bodies yield such an excessive ...

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 ...

Scientists from the Polytechnic Institute and State University of Virginia, better known as Virginia Tech, in the United States, discovered a group of new species of millipedes and surprised by ...