Look, I'm all for biodiversity, but 750 legs? That's too damned
many. First discovered in 1926, lllacme plenipes was thought
lost until it was spotted again in 2006. Now this millipede has
been fully described in the open access journal ZooKeys, and
suffice to say, the prospect of 375 pairs of legs gives me the
heebie jeebies. lllacme plenipes has only been found in one tiny
spot, San Juan Bautista in Northern California, where it can
live in a specific combination of fog and sandy soil and oak
forests. The only member of its family in the Western
Hemisphere, its name literally means "in highest fulfillment of
feet". Females can have up to 750 legs, and males reach just
562. That video above? Why, that one only has 662 legs, well
short of the record. Not content with having hundreds of tiny
little legs, I. plenipes has some other pretty remarkable
adaptations, too. Because it lives in the dark, it lacks eyes
and has huge antennae. It has a rudimentary fused mouth, evolved
to pierce and suck fungi and plants f