How Ancient Centipede Ancestors Conquered the Earth
Some 425 million years ago, leggy creatures called myriapods crawled onto land and never looked back. Today, the 13,000 species of centipedes, millipedes and other living myriapods (from the Greek words for “countless” and “legs”) are found in nearly every terrestrial environment on Earth, including caves, houses and the leaf-strewn grounds of Central Park. Some…