A giant, toothy centipede with countless legs is also a swimming fiend, making it the first known aquatic centipede on record. George Beccaloni, a curator of orthopteroids at the Natural History ...

The giant bird-eating centipede, ... The black-winged petrels — of which there are up to 19,000 breeding pairs on the island — appear to be resilient to this level of predation.

The giant desert centipede (Scolopendra heroes) is the largest species in the United States.They are between 6.5 and 8 inches long and have 21-23 pairs of legs. These centipedes live in arid ...

Giant bird-eating centipedes may sound like something out of a science-fiction film — but they’re not. On tiny Phillip Island, part of the South Pacific’s Norfolk Island group, the Phillip Island ...

Just in time for pool season, scientists have discovered a new species of centipede — the first known to hunt in water. It's called Scolopendra cataracta and it can grow to be up to 8 inches ...

Giant flesh-eating centipedes spotted preying on seabirds for first time, say scientists. Centipedes on Philip Island grow up to a foot in length and prey on 3700 seabird chicks each year ...

The giant centipede preys on invertebrates but has been known to catch and eat lizards, snakes, toads and rodents. According to the Texas Parks & Wildlife Magazine, their South American cousins ...

A visitor to the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park on Key Largo found the dead snake on Feb. 28; it had choked on a giant centipede that was still lodged partway down its gullet.

The rim rock crowned snake is the rarest snake in North America, and was spotted for the first time in 4 years in the Florida Keys — but researchers say the reptile was found dead, and had ...

The rim rock crowned snake is the rarest snake in North America, and was spotted for the first time in 4 years in the Florida Keys — but researchers say the reptile was found dead, and had ...