European Diseases: The diseases brought to this continent by the Europeans included bubonic plague, chicken pox, pneumonic plague, cholera, diphtheria, influenza, measles, scarlet fever, smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis, and whooping cough.
Silverfish are sometimes mistaken for centipedes, which do inflict painful bites. One way to tell the difference is to note how many legs the bug has. Upon close inspection of a silverfish, youâll see that it only has six legs. o Silverfish are small insects (between 1/4 inch and 1/2 inch) and have shimmering, silver-colored scales.
Illacme tobini Â© SciNews / YouTube Explorers in California have discovered a new species of creepy crawly boasting 200 poison glands, four penises and 414 legs. The âillacme tobiniâ is a type of millipede and was found living in marble caves in Sequoia National Park high in the Sierra Nevada mountains. via GIPHY Despite what the name suggests, millipedes do not possess 1,000 legs â in fact the worldâs leggiest creature, illacme plenipes, has just the 750.