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Science News, August 12, 2006 by David Clark
Reading the June 10 issue, I was prepared to catch the Simpsonesque spoof (blunder?) in the "Leggiest Animal: Champ millipede located after 79-year gap" (SN: 6/10/06, p. 357). Perhaps the creature had up to 748 legs, or possibly up to 752 legs, but not "up to 750 legs."
DAVID CLARK, LITITZ, PA.
Researcher Paul Marek of East Carolina University explains that Illacme plenipes has four legs per segment, except for segments 2, 3, and 4, which have one pair each, and three segments' that don't have any legs. So, an individual with 192 segments would have 750 legs.--S. MILIUS
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