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Why do centiped's have 100 legs?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs from under 20 to over 300. They always have an odd-number of pairs (for example 17 or 21 pairs instead of 20 or 26 pairs)

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