It is hard to believe that a living creature can spit out the chemical cyanide , this is a toxic substance that if you have read through the famous Japanese manga “famous detective Conan”, you will not be unfamiliar. What!

Dragon centipede. Internet photo.

But the newly discovered creature in a deep cave in Guangdong and Guangxi (China) surprised scientists. This is supposed to be a shocking find!

The centipede was considered as one of the three special new species in the Outstanding New Organisms of 2008 by the International Institute for Species Exploration.

According to researchers from many different countries such as the Agricultural University of South China, the Russian Academy of Sciences or the Alexander Koenig Museum of Zoology (Germany), the newly discovered centipede belongs to a genus of many animals. Desmoxytes foot.

They are named dragon centipedes, they have many thorns protruding all over their body and are very dark, with a body similar to an Asian dragon, living only in dark, cold places in deep caves. Southeast Asia.

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The size of a giant dragon centipede is about 3 cm. When encountering enemies, they will defend themselves by spraying deadly venom Cyanide (also known as Cyanide), a compound of nitrogen and carbon.

Often living in dark places, their skin color is also very pale due to little skin pigmentation, they can be pale pink, milky white or even transparent. Due to the lack of light, their antennae as well as their legs grow abnormally long!

The discovery was published in the scientific journal ZooKeys .