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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What creature has 16 legs?

Other animals with multiple limbs include caterpillars and woodlice at 16 and 14 respectively. Caterpillars mature to become butterflies and moths. Crabs and shrimps have ten limbs with the former having a pair of claws.
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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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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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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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Does a centipede 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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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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Does any animal 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 a million legs?

Like many subterranean animals, the millipede has no eyes and is colourless. Scientists suspect that it lives on fungi. An adult female in the study had 1,306 legs and another had 998. Two adult males had 818 legs and 778 legs.
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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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Which animal has more than 30 legs?

Despite the name, centipedes can have a varying number of legs, ranging from 30 to 382. Centipedes always have an odd number of pairs of legs. Consequently, no centipede has exactly 100 legs. Like spiders and scorpions, centipedes are predominantly carnivorous.
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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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How many legs does Caterpillar have?

Like all insects, this caterpillar has only 6 legs. Note the different shape of the three pairs of legs near the caterpillar's head. They're the true legs.
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Are spiders 8 eyes?

Spiders usually have eight eyes but few have good eyesight.

Some spiders have median eyes that can detect polarised light and they use this ability to navigate while hunting.
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Are ants 6 legs?

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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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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How many legs does a centipede?

Though their name literally means "one hundred legs," centipedes can have anywhere from 10 to roughly 300 legs. Oddly enough, you'll never find one with exactly 100 legs because they only have an odd number of pairs. And instead of being born with all of their legs, some species grow more legs each time they molt.
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How many legs do butterflies have?

Also like other insects, moths and butterflies have six legs, a head, a thorax, and an abdomen.
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