Though it might be pretty and it smells like almonds, the Pink Dragon millipede isn’t something you’d want to pick up and play with. The Pink Dragon millipede, one of 1,000 new plant and animal species discovered in Southeast Asia’s Greater Mekong region, produces the deadly chemical cyanide as a defense mechanism.
Also among the new animals discovered in the Greater Mekong region is a spider the size of a dinner plate, as well as a rat thought to be extinct nearly 11 million years ago.
It’s amazing to me that while the world has been mapped out, photographed from space, and explored thoroughly, we’ve still barely scratched the surface when it comes to what we know about certain areas of our planet.
Nice to see another blogger with a love for creatures. As much as I don’t like centipedes…I’ll look at this millipede (on your blog) and call it beautiful. Any closer and this huge phobia I have will set in. I won’t even talk about the “dinner plate” being. But, yeah, it’s all cool.
Yeah, I’ve definitely got a phobia of centipedes (not millipedes) and spiders, even though I know none of the centipedes or spiders we’d encounter here in Wisconsin could pose me any harm.