These rare, giant millipedes only exist in Florida

When a graduate found a baby Florida scrub millipede, she put it in a kiddie pool. Then it got busy reproducing. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. While Florida is perhaps best known for its beaches and wetlands, its landscape hosts other notable features: ridges . Millions of years ago, sea levels were higher than they are today, and these elevated areas of land became like islands.