What's Blue with Legs All Over? New 3D Avatar Millipede

The 1.5-inch-long (3.8 centimeters) millipede was discovered in Andalusia in Spain, in 2005. It lives in the dirt underneath stones and leaf litter — a decomposer that "acts as an important component of soil fauna," said study lead researcher Nesrine Akkari, the curator of the Myriapoda Collection at the Museum of Natural History in Vienna. The researchers placed the jar containing the millipede in the machine, which then took X-rays of the specimen from different angles.