1306 legs the longest animal in the world

Scientists discovered the first true millipede: It has 1306 legs

A group of Australian scientists has discovered an arthropod that has more legs than any other known animal on Earth.

 Biologists have discovered a millipede with more than 1,000 legs. This is an unprecedented discovery, as, before this, no millipede with more than 750 legs had been found.

Eumillipes persephone

 This finding, the details of which are detailed in an article titled The first true millipede, was made by a team led by University of Virginia Systematic Biology Professor Paul Marek, 60 meters underground in a mining region in Australia. Western.

The arthropod has been named Eumillipes Persephone, a pale-colored adult female with more than 1,300 legs on an elongated body about 95 millimeters long.

"In my opinion, it is an amazing animal, a marvel of evolution", has expressed the biologist and co-author of the discovery Bruno Buzatto, adding that this millipede is the most elongated among the millipedes found to date, which were the first animals in conquering the land.

Millipedes first seemed more than 400 million years in the past.