What creature has 7 legs?

A freak sheep with seven legs has been born in China. The adorable lamb was welcomed into the world by Inner Mongolian farmer Wang Jingfeng late January. Within minutes it was running and jumping around, and drinking milk from its mother.
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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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Do spiders have 7 legs?

Spiders typically have eight walking legs (insects have six). They do not have antennae; the pair of appendages in front of the legs are the pedipalps (or just palps). Spiders' legs are made up of seven segments.
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What animals have 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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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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Do scorpions have 8 legs?

But scorpions - members of the arachnida class along with spiders - actually have eight legs, as well as their distinctive pincers.
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Which is a 10 legged animal?

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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Is there a bug with 10 legs?

These are known by a number of common names, including wind-spiders, camel-spiders, wind-scorpions, and sun-spiders. Technically, they are called solifugae.
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Does any creature 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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How many legs does a spider?

How many legs does a spider have? They have 10 legs! 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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Do any mammals have 6 legs?

On Earth, most creatures are tetrapods, meaning they have four limbs. That includes everything from dogs to horses to humans. The only creatures that have six limbs are insects.
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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 millipede have?

Millipedes (Subphylum Myriapoda; Class Diplopoda) have two pairs of legs on most body segments. The millipede Illacme plenipes (found in California) has the most legs of any animal on Earth (750 legs). However, most millipede species have about 300 legs.
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How many legs do dragonflies have?

Dragonflies. Odonates (dragonflies and damselflies) have the basic insect body parts which consist of a hard exoskeleton. Fashioned into a head, a thorax, abdomen, six legs, and four wings. Dragonflies are large, heavy-bodies, usually larger than damselflies.
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How many legs has a 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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How many legs does an ant have?

Ants use their powerful mandibles to grasp and carry, as well as for cutting and biting. The ant's six legs are attached to the thorax. The abdomen contains the ant's vital organs and reproductive parts.
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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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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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Are there any creatures 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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