Divide and conquer.Reading the June 10 issue, I was prepared to catch the Simpsonesque spoof (blunder?) in the "Leggiest Animal: Champ millipede millipede (mĭl`əpēd'), elongated arthropod having many body segments and pairs of legs. Millipedes, sometimes termed thousand-legged worms, have two pairs of legs on each body segment except the first few and the last. located after 79-year gap" (SN: 6/10/06, p. 357). Perhaps the creature had up to 748 legs, or possibly up to 752 legs, but not "up to 750 legs." DAVID CLARK David Clark or Dave Clark can refer to different people:
Researcher Paul Marek Paul Marek, (born July 25, 1964 in Mount Isa), Australian politician, was the National Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from March 2, 1996 until October 3, 1998, representing the Division of Capricornia, Queensland. of East Carolina University East Carolina University is a public, coeducational, intensive research university located in Greenville, North Carolina, United States. Named East Carolina University by statue and commonly known as ECU or East Carolina explains that Illacme plenipes has four legs per segment, except for segments 2, 3, and 4, which have one pair each, and three segments' that don't have any legs. So, an individual with 192 segments would have 750 legs.--S. MILIUS |
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