Scattered across a chain of subtropical islands in southwestern Japan, buried under rocks, or deep within the region’s humid soil, researchers discovered seven new species with ...

Thousands of wriggling critters are causing a stink – in more ways that one. A plague of noxious millipedes are invading people’s beach houses in Bournemouth, leaving one owner shuddering at ...

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 ...

“The Ellett Valley millipede exists nowhere else in the world, and the species urgently needs federal protection.” Millipedes were one of the first animals to breathe atmospheric oxygen, and they have ...