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Students found the Los Angeles thread millipede at a hiking area in Southern California. (Paul Marek via AP)
A Los Angeles thread millipede crawls beside a nickel. (Paul Marek, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech)
The millipede lives four inches below the soil. (Paul Marek, Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech)
Two Los Angeles thread millipedes show off their hundreds of legs. (Aggyrolemnoixytes/CC)

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How many shoes would this bug need? It has lots of feet! People found this millipede (MIH-luh-peed) in the city. It is as long as a paperclip.

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Pray: Thank God for the fun of finding unknown creatures. God always knew about this millipede. He cares for all He has made.

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Graduate students Cedric Lee and James Bailey went out to collect slugs in California four years ago. They found a teeny millipede. Testing proved it was an animal never studied before. Scientists announced the discovery of the Los Angeles thread millipede this summer. It lives four inches under the soil. It is blind. It uses antennae on its head to find its way. Millipedes help the soil. They eat dead matter like rotting wood.

God made “everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.” He saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:25)