Venom flows in special channels through these legs, an adaptation with few parallels in the animal kingdom. So far, we have only been talking about the brown house centipede, since that is the ...

The reason why is simple: You should never squish a centipede because it might be the only thing standing between you and a ...

A rare, venomous centipede has been discovered in Nottinghamshire for the first time. Scutigera coleoptrata, commonly known as the House Centipede, was found at the home of University of Leicester ...

Centipedes' geological record extends back to the Silurian, deep into the history of soil and litter animal assemblages ... centipedes and the phylogeny of the Scutigeromorpha (house centipedes) based ...