Its just their name...accept it Irene and move on!!
A creature can have any amount of legs, but this creature has one hundred legs. The name of this unusual and common creature is a centipede. The name 'centipede' is a strange name for such a tiny element of nature. If you can find a centipedethe you can try to catch it and study it and figure out why and how it got its name and other biography about the centipede.
There are many types of centipedes. The house centipede is the Scutigera coleoptrata and the earth centipede is the Pachymerium ferrugineum.
there was a centipede on that girls back,and she got scared.
A creature with one hundred legs is called a "centipede."
scolopendra
The scientific name for a centipede is Chilopoda.
Scolopendra sp.
Centipede!!
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Chilopoda
sea centipede