Have you ever turned over a flat stone or a rotting log, and seen a little wormlike creature running quickly away from the light? The chances are it was a centipede.

Of course you didn’t actually have a chance to count all its feet to see if it really had a hundred of them! The name “centipede” means “100-footed,” and some species of this creature actually have 100 feet. Some, in fact, even have more legs than that! And some have only 30 legs.