The City of Angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honour: The Los Angeles Thread Millipede.
The tiny arthropod was found just underground by naturalists at a Southern California hiking area -- near a freeway, a Starbucks and an Oakley sunglasses store.
"It's amazing to think these millipedes are crawling in the inner cracks and crevices between little pieces of rock below our feet in Los Angeles," said entomologist Paul Marek of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He was part of the research team that included scientists from West Virginia University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
"By knowing something about the species that fulfill these really important ecological roles, we can protect them and then the environment that protects us as well," Marek said. "We don't know what's completely out there," Lee said. "There's literally undescribed species right under our feet."
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