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Patterns in Nature: Enigmatic Earth

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Exhibiting its main defense mechanism, a millipede curls into a tight spiral. In this fashion it protects its legs—on average between 100 and 300, not the thousand its name suggests—inside its body. Photograph by George Grall

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