back to article Newly discovered cave-dwelling creepy-crawly is four times the man* you are

Scientists have discovered a new species of millipede with four penises lurking deep within the crystal cave of Sequoia National Park. In a paper published in ZooKeys, the team of researchers have named the millipede Illacme tobini. It is tiny, thin, pale, and looks like a piece of thread. Diplopodologists – scientists who …

  1. James 51

    The silk part is interesting, is it the same as spider silk and silkworms?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      The question may be wrong.

      Spider silk is different to silkworm silk AFAIK.

  2. Warm Braw

    Illacme tobini

    Given the name of the other one, I suppose Illacme plenipenes would have been too confusing.

  3. tiggity Silver badge

    Fire up the quatro

    Expecting to see lots of four play, four skin etc. puns in these comments

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Fire up the quatro

      Well, it's got legs...

    2. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
      Happy

      Re: Fire up the quatro

      @tiggity

      Quattro - Qui. le Pénis - Non

      Pikes Peak 1985

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NnmkeyraRc

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKKfzR7dX-c

  4. Mage Silver badge

    So...

    What is the female like? Or is that the female too (Snails are both?)

  5. Anonymous Blowhard

    That's the same number of penises as One Direction**

    ** Post Zexit

    1. FozzyBear

      Are you sure? I thought there wasn't a penis attached to any of the members of the band

    2. mics39

      So Trump's former life form has been discovered!!

  6. x 7

    "The new species .............."

    This is not a new species.

    Its a newly discovered species.............its probably been around for a few hundred thousand years

  7. Captain DaFt

    four penises lurking deep within the crystal cave

    That really caught my eye.

    Reads like the name of an esoteric oriental sex technique, or possibly a lost chapter of the Kama Sutra. ☺

    1. DJV Silver badge

      "That really caught my eye"

      Dangerous! Those four penises will have your eye out if you don't "watch" it!

  8. ksb1972

    4 times the pleasure

    Just imagine if men evolved to have four penises & women four vaginas...

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: 4 times the pleasure

      Seeing what massive wankers some are, I suspect they already do.

    2. DJV Silver badge

      Re: 4 times the pleasure

      Well, fuck me (cubed)!

    3. Jean Stone
      Alien

      Re: 4 times the pleasure

      Bah, the Centauri of Babylon 5 have SIX.

  9. Your alien overlord - fear me

    "four penises, hairs capable of secreting silk and a whopping 200 poison glands" but how is natural selection going to compete with my size 12 boots?

  10. You aint sin me, roit
    Coat

    four of its legs have been modified into penises

    You know what they say....

    "Big feet... big cocks!"

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