What animals have a lot of legs?

Millipede with more legs than any known animal discovered in Australia
  • Scientists in Australia have discovered an elongated millipede with more legs than any other known animal.
  • The pale-coloured millipede has more than 1,300 legs in an elongated body about 95mm long.
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What animals have 10 legs?

The Decapoda or decapods (literally "ten-footed") are an order of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca, including many familiar groups, such as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp and prawns.
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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 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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Is there an animal with 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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Which animal has most number of legs?

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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Do any creatures have 12 legs?

Symphylans have more than 200 species, with the young having 12 limbs while the adults grow up to 24. They lack eyes, and therefore, their sense organs come in the form of long antennae. These arthropods are similar to centipedes; however, they are smaller and shiny.
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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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How many legs have crab?

Crabs belong to a group of animals called 'Decapods' – Meaning '10 legs'. This group also includes lobsters, shrimps, and prawns. Crabs are encased in a hard, protective shell (exoskeleton) which acts like a suit of armour often with spines or teeth.
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Is there an animal 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.
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What has 10 legs crab or scorpion?

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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What animals have eight legs?

20 Eight-Legged Arachnids that are Like Insects
  • Itch mites, spider mites, cheese mites (Acariformes)
  • Daddy longlegs, harvestmen (Opiliones)
  • Camel spiders, sun spiders (Solifugae)
  • Varroa destructor (mite), blacklegged deer tick, American dog tick, Brown dog tick (Parasitiformes)
  • Book scorpion (Pseudoscorpiones)
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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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How many legs does a spider?

This is no joke; spiders have 8 legs that they walk with, however, they also have a pair that they use sort of like hands. These front pair of legs are referred to pedipalps or just palps for short.
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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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Is there a bug with 10 legs?

Technically, they are called solifugae. They aren't spiders, and they aren't scorpions, but they are a related group of invertebrates. They have extremely long “front legs,” which are actually appendages called pedipalps.
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What kind of bug has 10 legs?

Although the common name given to these spiders may not conjure up anything intimidating, camel spiders are, perhaps, the most intimidating spiders that have ever been described by researchers. These spiders possess ten legs, and the have the largest jaws of any arachnid species. They also grow to enormous sizes.
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Does a scorpion have 10 legs?

Scorpions. Scorpions have eight legs, two strong pincers, and a flexible tail with a venomous sting.
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Is there an animal with 100 legs?

Despite their names, millipedes don't have even close to 1000 feet. Most species have fewer than 100 legs. But now, researchers have discovered a species of millipede that can exceed the definition. The animal was found living as deep as 60 meters below the surface of a desert in Western Australia.
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What animal has a million legs?

A newly discovered millipede has claimed the title of the 'leggiest' animal in the world. Eumillipes persephone was found more than 60 metres below the ground, using its 1,300 legs to push itself through the soil.
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How many 4 legged animals are there?

That seems like a lot of two-legged animals, but non-human mammals number around 500 billion and almost all of them are four-legged. And according to some studies, there might be another 10 trillion reptiles and amphibians.
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What kind of animal has 6 legs?

All insects have six legs. They make up a group of arthropod called the hexapods - meaning six legs. There are about 25 different groups of insect, each group is called an order.
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