Sensational headlines accuse the Amazonian giant centipede of hunting bats, killing children, and feasting on corpses. The ...

A team of researchers from several institutions in China has identified the toxin in golden head centipede venom. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group ...

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This giant centipede takes the familiar household creepy-crawly to another level. Large enough to prey on animals far bigger ...

It's eight inches long with a painful bite, long legs, and "a horrible dark, greenish-black color." It's also bound to make you avoid all lakes and streams for the near future. Gregory Edgecombe of ...