Toads Have Arms, But What About Millipede?

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I've long, long argued that toads have arms. The they're all legs. Millipede comes from the word for thousand ri and then centipede for 100 yep. Well, there didnt used to be. But only a couple f months ago, my former p adviser, paul merrick, he worked with some australian scientists who had found this weird millipe deep underground from a bore hole. I think it was found during some mining exploration, or like environmental assessment of some place they wanted to mine. So you know, ans, we're kind of weird, cause we do have arms and legs. When you get down to the majority of animals you

How many legs? Why so many legs? What's a millipede versus a centipede? And again WHY SO MANY LEGS. We have just the guy for that: Diplopodologist Dr. Derek Hennen. As a person who’s spent over a decade sorting through leaf litter and naming scores of new species, Derek is truly a champion for the multi-limbed little critters. If you liked what Casey Clapp brought to Dendrology, get ready to appreciate millipedes like you never thought you would. Also: mythology gossip, world records, Taylor Swift fandom, and sniffing bugs.

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