Does anything have 12 legs?

Symphylans. Symphylans are arthropods that dwell in the soil and in turn, have earned the name garden centipedes. They have between 15 and 24 segments in their trunks of which ten or twelve have a pair of legs each. Symphylans have more than 200 species, with the young having 12 limbs while the adults grow up to 24.
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What kind of animal has 14 legs?

The giant Bathynomus is a deep sea crustacean with 14 legs.

The peculiar creature was found during a marine survey conducted by Peter Ng of the National University of Singapore and colleagues, reports Daily Mail.
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What animals have 15 legs?

When (and if) Iowans think about centipedes they probably picture the house centipede. This common home and garden resident is up to 1.5 inches long and has 15 pairs of very long, slender legs stretched proudly to the sides of the body.
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Do any creatures have 10 legs?

Ten-legged animals belong exclusively to the arthropod group, which contains crustaceans and insects. You'll find most -- but not all -- 10-legged animals living in the sea. Crabs, lobsters and crayfish, shrimp, and in the desert, their is the scorpion. They all have 10 legs.
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Does a lobster have 12 legs?

Two Strong Front Claws

All lobsters have eight walking legs they use to crawl forward.
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Are there any 7 legged animals?

A seven-legged lamb has been born in New Zealand. Although the six-day old bleats like a healthy animal, its abnormalities mean it is unlikely to survive.
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What insect has 1000 legs?

There are two very similar bugs that are often called “hundred-leggers” or “thousand-leggers.” These are more accurately known as the house centipede and the millipede. They are both arthropods, and neither is poisonous (although some types of centipedes are) and both are pretty common throughout the United States.
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Can a spider have 6 legs?

Do spiders have 6 legs? Yes. Some spiders have six legs, one pair of which is the chelicerae (spider legs). The other five pairs of spider legs are used for walking around on all fours like a normal spider; these are called pedipalpus or “palps”.
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Which insect has 200 legs?

Often referred to as “thousand-leggers,” millipedes generally have anywhere from 30-90+ pairs of legs. The Illacme plenipes, one of about 10,000 known species of millipede, is the leggiest bug in the world. Males of these species have about 200 pairs of legs and females have over 300.
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Does any animal have 20 legs?

Centipedes are long, thin arthropods with one pair of legs per body segment. Despite "centi" in their name, which implies 100 legs, centipedes can have fewer than 20 legs to more than 300 legs, but they always have an odd number of pairs of legs.
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What animal has 10 hearts?

Since octopus blood is very copper-rich, it's exceptionally viscous. As a result, it requires a significant amount of pressure to pump blood through its body. To compensate, the octopus evolved three separate hearts to take stress off of its systematic heart and ensure it gets enough oxygen into its gills.
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Do centipedes have 100 legs?

Despite a common name that means 100 legs, Australian species of centipede can have from 15 to 191 pairs of legs. Australia currently has 128 species of centipede out of a worldwide fauna of between 2,500 and 3,000 species.
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What animal has 9 legs?

The discovery of an octopus with nine legs in Shizugawa Bay in Minami-Sanriku, Japan, has surprised even a local researcher, who said he had never seen such a phenomenon. An octopus has the ability to regenerate its eight legs, and by some chance this one perhaps added one.
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What type of bug has 16 legs?

The insect in question is Scutigera coleoptrata, more commonly known as the house centipede. The first thing you need to do is relax.
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Is a silverfish a centipede?

Though silverfish and house centipedes may occupy some of the same areas indoors, there are quite a few differences between the two. For one, the silverfish is an insect unlike the centipede, and has the traditional six legs.
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Can centipedes make you deaf?

I have heard that millipede or centipede (known as kaankhajoora in Hindi) can enter into your ear while you are asleep and eat away your brain. Is this true? Can they be fatal? A:There is no evidence of insects in the ear getting into the brain although it is a popular myth that they can.
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Does a millipede have 1 million legs?

Most species of millipedes have around 300 legs. The number of legs a millipede will have varies and is dependent on the species. Millipedes have two pairs of legs per segment, and the number of segments per species is around 25 to 100. Most species of millipede will have 300 legs, sometimes a bit more.
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What creature has the most eyes?

Dragonflies (Anisoptera) Some species of dragonfly have more than 28,000 lenses per compound eye, a greater number than any other living creature. And with eyes covering almost their entire head, they have nearly 360-degree vision too.
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What has the most legs on earth?

A newfound species of millipede has more legs than any other creature on the planet—a mind-boggling 1,300 of them. The leggy critters live deep below Earth's surface and are the only known millipedes to live up to their name.
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Are there any animals with 5 legs?

One of the world's best loved and iconic animals has been keeping a secret. It turns out kangaroos may be the world's only “pentapedal” animals, effectively having five legs. Before you start taking a close look at stills of Skippy the bush kangaroo, it's not a secret limb – the fifth “leg” is the animal's tail.
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Are there any mammals with more than 4 legs?

Number of legs in terrestrial vertebrates

Not only do mammals have four legs but actually all terrestrial vertebrates (which include mammals) have four legs. There are slight exceptions though as some lineages have lost their legs. Typically snakes have no legs anymore.
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What animal has the most teeth?

Snails have the most teeth of any animal

A garden snail has about 14,000 teeth while other species can have over 20,000. But that's not even the most shocking part: The teeth of an aquatic snail called the limpet are the strongest known biological material on Earth, even stronger than titanium!
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