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Why does an insect have six legs?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Insects (with six legs) and Spiders (with eight legs) have specialized activities in which a multitude of legs is advantageous. The centipede and millipede have many more legs than that, and slugs and snails have no actual legs at all.

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