Millipedes aren’t insects, but arthropod invertebrates more closely related to lobsters and crayfish.
A team of researchers in Los Angeles has discovered a new species of millipede. The new species, known as the Los Angeles Thread Millipede or the more formal illacme socal, was found beneath the soil surface in two parks located in the city and in Orange County. Measuring just 0.5mm wide and 2.5cm long, the burrowing creature is also pale and blind and reportedly has the ability to produce a silk-like sticky substance similar to spider silk.
The popular preprint server arXiv.org, where physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists routinely upload manuscripts to publicly share their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles.
ArXiv (pronounced archive) is a public server repository that hosts electronic e-prints of research output primarily from the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
