You have seen them in your basement, your garage, and your garden. They are quick, slippery, and possess more legs than you have time to count. But are centipedes a danger to your family and pets? The ...

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Some centipedes don’t swim by paddling their many legs, but by wiggling their body from tail to head – the opposite direction of motion that snakes use to move across water. Kelimar Diaz at the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — As cooler temperatures settle in, various different bugs may weasel their way into your home during their search for warmer temperatures. If some of those bugs have far more ...

The more legs a robot has the better it seems to be at travelling over rough terrain. Baxi Chong at the Georgia Institute of Technology and his colleagues built a range of multi-legged robots from ...

Have you ever been washing your hands only to be startled by 15 pairs of legs moving an eerily long and slender body up through your drain? No, it's not an organic alien probe, that's a centipede. Let ...

One of the marvels of the natural world is that animals with more legs than you can count are able to walk — and to run — with seeming ease. How do they do it? Centipedes are flat, elongate animals ...

I turned over a log in the woods last week and was pleased to see nearly two dozen pairs of bright red legs disappear beneath the leaves: a centipede. I immediately thought of three questions I have ...

Most millipedes defend themselves by curling into a ball, but one found in a Virginia national park secretes toxic cyanide compounds to ward off predators NPS Photos/Marie Pinto More stories about ...