Five Things I Learned:
- There are 12,000 discovered species of millipedes, but 100,000 are thought to exist.
- Millipedes are vegetarians that feed on decaying plant matter.
- Motyxia are blind and glow in the dark due to living underground a majority of the time, yet still have the ability to sense nightfall.
- Motyxia use their glow as a warning beacon and release toxic cyanide when endangered.
- There are only 3 areas in the world that you can see motyxia, and all of them are in California. They are the Santa Monica Mountains, the Tehachapi Mountains, and the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains.
The evidence that they used scientific method is that they first made a hypothesis about why the centipedes glowed in the dark. After making a hypothesis, they conducted various experiments and studies, such as the study on how Motyxia would survive with and without their glow in the wild, or tracing the Motyxia genus back through the evolutionary tree. Finally, they made a conclusion based on the data they had compiled.
