The short answers are, no, yes, yes. No, not all centipedes are dangerous. Yes, some southwestern U.S. and tropical ...

Most centipedes are perfectly harmless ... effort to isolate the exact chemical that causes the centipede’s venom to be so incredibly lethal. After testing each compound independently they ...

“There’s on the order of 3,000 venomous centipedes,” says Glenn King, a biochemist at the University of Queensland, Australia. “Yet they’re massively underexplored in terms of what’s in the venom.” In ...

While millipedes protect their eggs from predators in a hard ground nest and are not poisonous, centipedes possess a pair of fangs that contain the venomous glands. Most myriapods are found in ...