Thread: 'Horrific' new giant swimming centipede discovered on Thai beaches

Now, you have more to fear on the beach than just a nip slip or a hairy back. Researchers have just discovered a new kind of giant swimming centipede. And, lucky us, it only lives on Southeast Asia’s beaches.

According to National Geographic, this “horrific, giant, venomous creepy-crawly” is as comfortable walking on land as it is swimming underwater.

Researchers have called the creature Scolopendra cataracta and it is the world’s first amphibious centipede. It belongs to the family of Scolopendra centipedes and can grow as long as 20 centimeters long.


Photo: The Sun

All centipedes are venomous and carnivorous and Scolopendra cataracta is no different.

The centipede was first spotted by......

'Horrific' new giant swimming centipede discovered on Thai beaches | Coconuts Bangkok

I fucking hate these things. Isn't a centipede bite up there with some of the most painful bites know to man? (what I heard)

So far, two specimens have been collected near a waterfall in Laos, one in Thailand, and one in Vietnam.

Wouldn't panic just yet

this centipede is very different from its cousins

Yeah, that's "horrific!"