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Monday, 20 December 2021 – 09:46 WIB
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Scientists at Australia find a very long luing, with more legs than animal anything that has ever been known.
This pale luing or millipede has about 1,300 feet on its body which is an unusually long, 99 millimeters.
The creature, named Eumilipes Persephone, was found nearly 60 meters underground in a mining area in western Australia.
The previous record holder for the longest luing came from a species in California at 750 feet.
“Never before has a luing been found to have more than 1,000 feet, although millipede literally means ‘a thousand feet’,” Virginia Tech entomologist Paul Marek, lead author of the research published in the journal Scientific Reports, told Reuters.
In Indonesian, luing is also known as Centipede.
The animal’s scientific name, Eumilipes Persephone, means ‘a true thousand feet’.
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