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If I asked you to name an animal that could stop a train, you might guess something big, like an elephant or a bison. Or you might guess a group of smaller animals, like a herd of deer or a flock of geese. But I’m going to need you to think smaller. Like, much smaller. Because this is a story about how millipedes in Japan stopped a train.
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Sources:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.201399
www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/science/millipede-swarms-japan-train.html
www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/zoology/item/how-are-millipedes-and-centipedes-alike-and-how-do-they-differ/
www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/april/what-millipedes-and-centipedes-looked-like-when-they-lived-underwater.html
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018223001268?via%3Dihub
www.npr.org/2021/01/15/957371248/japanese-researchers-explain-8-year-life-cycle-of-train-millipedes
www.sciencealert.com/this-train-disrupting-millipede-has-been-confirmed-to-have-an-eight-year-repeating-life-cycle
web.archive.org/web/20140221184104/enviro.doe.gov.my/lib/digital/1385476273-3-s2.0-B0122268652002042-main.pdf
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