Giant millipede was lost to science for 126 years: It's just been found in Madagascar

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Giant millipede was lost to science for 126 years: It's just been found in Madagascar

When a new species is discovered in the depths of the rainforest or on top of a mountain, it can be years before the creature is cataloged again. Separated from science by elevation, water or tangled branches, the species lives undisturbed, its populations existing in an almost-separate world.