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animalworld: Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede (Desmoxytes purpurosea)  -  ©WWF a new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) which comprises Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan Province in the People’s Republic of China a spiny and toxic millipede aptly named for its bright pink color These adult millipedes are approximately 3 cm long they live in the open on leaf litter they have glands that produce hydrogen cyanide to protect them from predators, a fact advertised by their aposematic color because they produce cyanide, they smell like almonds the shocking pink dragon millipede was named third in the top ten species in 2008 by the International Institute for Species Exploration. How have I never heard of pink dragon millipedes before now?

animalworld:

Shocking Pink Dragon Millipede (Desmoxytes purpurosea)  -  ©WWF

  • a new species discovered in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) which comprises Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan Province in the People’s Republic of China
  • a spiny and toxic millipede aptly named for its bright pink color
  • These adult millipedes are approximately 3 cm long
  • they live in the open on leaf litter
  • they have glands that produce hydrogen cyanide to protect them from predators, a fact advertised by their aposematic color
  • because they produce cyanide, they smell like almonds
  • the shocking pink dragon millipede was named third in the top ten species in 2008 by the International Institute for Species Exploration.

How have I never heard of pink dragon millipedes before now?

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    Hahaaah, this is awesome! X3
  5. queengwenevere reblogged this from animalworld and added:
    Okay, it’s official, science fiction ain’t got nothin’...real world… Come on, hot
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    AWESOME.
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  9. jadeneternal reblogged this from animalworld and added:
    I never heard of...millipedes before now?
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