Latin Name: Scolopendra herosSize: As long as eight inchesHabitat: StatewideWhen Jesse Pye first saw the giant centipede in bed with him, at a friend’s house in San Antonio two years ago, his brain refused to process it. “I thought it might be a stain on the comforter,” he recalls of the dark, golf ball–size object atop the duvet. He leaned in for a closer look, only to recoil as the golf ball unfurled into a seven-inch-long creature with a black body, a crimson head, and more than forty wriggling yellow legs. “Too many legs,” Pye thought. His pulse racing, he snapped some photos before wrapping the centipede in the comforter, like some burrito from hell, and shaking it free outside. The photos were picked up by news outlets…
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