You find a multilegged animal in your garden and want to determine whether it is a centipede or a millipede. You take the animal to a university, where a myriapodologist quickly tells you that you have found a centipede. Which of the following may have allowed her to make this distinction?

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Centipedes have poisonous fangs, known as forcipules, which they use to inject venom into their prey. This is a distinguishing feature not found in millipedes.

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