### id260185251 centipedes are venomous carnivores > Millipedes and centipedes can be referred to interchangeably in conversation, but they are very different organisms. Centipedes are carnivores, and they capture prey and inject them with venom—this is why centipedes belong to the class *Chilopoda*, which means “lips legs.” The name comes from the “enlarged venomous fangs that evolved from the first pair of legs just behind the head,” Zahnle said. > > Centipedes are fast-running predators who kill their prey with poison claws,” said Henrik Enghoff, a curator of Myriapoda at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.” - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fq9jqzx5dn0ndhx70hgs5ycb) - [[Scientists Have Identified the First 'True' Millipede by Shayla Love#id260185251 centipedes are venomous carnivores|View in Vault]]