This creature has over 400 paws, 200 poison glands and 4 penises.

Did you get a good look at the little creature above? It was recently discovered by a biologist named Jean K. Krejca in a cave in the Sierra Nevada region of California (not Spain!) And is the only specimen ever captured of this curious animal.

According to Ben Guarino of The Washington Post, after analyzing the pet in the lab, Jean found that it was a new species. As it turns out, the animal, a male, has 207 pairs of paws, plus more than 200 glands that expel a (possibly) toxic substance - probably as a defense mechanism - and is endowed with four "penises".

Unpublished species

According to Ben, the animal is named after Illacme tobini and is the second largest-legged creature ever found in the world. Regarding the penises, it is worth clarifying that the animal has specific reproductive structures for sperm transfer and, in addition to the characteristics described above, it has a mouth and a mechanism for chewing.

Were you afraid of finding such an animal ahead? For there is no reason for fear, because besides being only about 2 centimeters long, being completely blind and probably living on a fungal-eating diet, only a single copy of the bug was found - although scientists have conducted a series of expeditions to the Californian caves.

Examinations have shown that it is a diplopod - also known by the name snake louse - and that the animal is “related” to another extremely rare animal, I. plenipes, which is the largest-legged specimen in the world. world: 750. Analyzes on the I. tobini will continue, as will the expeditions of cave explorer scientists, who continue to search for new species for the world to know.