WATCH: Video of the rare millipede with a record-breaking 750 legs

Scientists rediscover an astoundingly leggy bug they once believed to be extinct

An illacme plenipes
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The video: The world's leggiest creature has long been an enigma thought to be extinct. But now, scientists at the University of Arizona have released the first video of the millipede illacme plenipes, a tiny yet "strikingly complex" bug with a record-breaking 750 legs. This rare millipede, which lives exclusively under a particular type of sandstone boulder on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, has a translucent exoskeleton that produces its very own "clothing" in the form of silk body hairs. And thanks to its hundreds of legs, the inch-long bug can slither around in the dirt and burrow underground with astonishing ease. Take a look at this strange bug:

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