Scientists in Australia have encountered an animal with the highest amount of legs ever
A longer-than-usual millepede has been discovered with more than 1,300 legs with a body about 95 millimetres long.
It was found nearly 60 metres underground in a mining area in Western Australia.
The last animal that held the position was also a millipede in California that counted 750 legs.
The lead author of the research says that “previously no known millipede actually had 1,000 legs despite the name millipede meaning ‘thousand feet'”.
The record-holder has no eyes and is colourless… with researchers suspecting that it lives on fungi.
A principal biologist at Bennelongia Environmental Consultants in Perth, Australia, Bruno Buzatto, labelled the discovery as “a marvel of evolution”.
“It represents the most extreme elongation found to date in millipedes, which were the first animals to conquer land,” Mr Buzatto says.
