DISQUS

waqas · 2 years ago

The 15-171 range doesn't seem definite. Most of the online texts including Wikipedia, Encarta and Britannica articles have separate values.

Note that this range is for adult centipedes. Scutigera coleoptera (the American House Centipede) for example hatches with only 4 pairs of legs.

waqas · 2 years ago

And by the way, did you post this before or after sleep? :)

Asma · 2 years ago

Lolzzz :-D

Thanks dude - you solved a major confusion in my head ;-)

Asma · 2 years ago

@waqas : or may be during sleep ^_^

umar · 2 years ago

you are welcome asma! I obviously posted it before sleeping and after waking up.

Raza · 2 years ago

Ah, reminds of that centipede joke I heard sometime back. It went something like ... never ask a centipede to go any place with you cuz it takes ages for it just to get its boots on ! :P

Ahmed · 2 years ago

a/c to wikipedia House Centipedes have 15 pairs of legs and believe me I have seen them they are very freaky looking creatures ew!!

Yousuf · 2 years ago

BTW: There is another invertebrate of the centipede family known as millipede. As far as I remember, Centi is used in SI units as hundredth(.01) part of something and Milli as thousandth(.001) part of something, using SI prefix like centi and milli for an invertebrate having more than one legs doesn't make sense, agreed?. Why don't the biology nomenclature be streamlined with the prefixes used by rest of this technological aware world, I mean the names should be hectopede(for invertebrate presently called centipede), kilopede(for millipede), megapede & gigapede etc.....for more advanced versions of pedes. ;)

Adnan Siddiqi · 2 years ago

does it matter? the thing which matters most that how many legs does he use. Since I keep listening "Murgha k ek taang" so I believe that other leg of Murga is useless or he doesn't know the purpose of other leg. :-)

basit · 2 years ago

you solved a major confusion in my head ;-)