Why it's awesome: This deadly, yellow centipede has evolved to live in the Movile Cave — a pitch black, sulfurous underground system untouched by sunlight for more than 5 million years.

Cheetah cubs can be full of energy and curious, but when their curiosity meets a new-fangled centipede it fascinates and ...

Alongside a mountain road in northern Venezuela, a venomous creature tucked up its 1-foot-long body and hid under a rock to wait for nightfall. The lurking animal caught the attention of passing ...

Chilopoda includes some 3,500 living species. Centipedes' geological record extends back to the Silurian, deep into the history of soil and litter animal assemblages. There is a wide variation in ...

Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals, tested their DNA and soon realized they’d discovered a new species: Tantilla palamala, or the open-winged centipede snake. Open-winged ...