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• n  chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

• It grew out of a survey of New York City's Central Park that turned up a new species of centipede.
• A centipede may have anywhere from 38 to 400 legs.
• For $5, guides in period dress at Centipede Tours (centipede inc.

News & Articles

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• What is that thing?
  What is that thing? Whitney Rivette and Wyatt Turner take a look at the centipede at the Chomp exhibit at Space Center Houston Friday, June 7.
  June 17, 2013 - The Bay Area Citizen

Quotes

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• Robbie Bach in Digital News Report
  Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft's Entertainment & Devices Division, says "There's a generation of people who grew up with a set of games like Centipede that are favorites."
• Billy Casper in Telegraph.co.uk
  Asked how he holed so many putts, the great American potter Billy Casper said: "How does a seagull fly, how does a centipede get all those legs working at once?"
• Abu Zubaydah in Politico
  Abu Zubaydah says, "That sounds great, but right now I've still got this giant centipede in my cell."