New species of ancient chirping giant pill-millipedes from Madagascar already threatened

Saturday, June 7, 2014 - 03:31 in Biology & Nature

An international team of researchers comprised of Thomas Wesener, Museum Koenig, Bonn, Daniel Le, Field Museum, Chicago and Stephanie Loria, American Museum of Natural History, New York, discovered seven new species of chirping giant pill-millipedes on Madagascar. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

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