The Chinese red-headed centipede belongs in the latter group, with a venomous bite that can kill creatures 15 times the creature’s size, and scientists are just now beginning to understand how ...

House centipedes have a pair of legs called forcipules right below their mouths, converted to carry out pincer-like actions. They use these pincer-like legs to discharge a venomous sting at their ...

“There’s on the order of 3,000 venomous centipedes,” says Glenn King, a biochemist at the University of Queensland, Australia. “Yet they’re massively underexplored in terms of what’s in the venom.” In ...

Steve gets to grips with a very creepy customer in a cave in Venezuela – the world’s largest centipede, the highly venomous giant scolopendra.

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