📏 Measuring over 10 inches long, this giant millipede was rediscovered in Madagascar's Makia National Park. After being lost to science since 1897, this impressive insect was found, along with 20 other rediscoveries during a 2023 #SearchforLostSpecies expedition. Learn more - link in bio! 🌳 Makira is the largest and most intact forest in Madagascar—and many of the species here can't be found anywhere else. Thanks to support from ridgesfoundation this expedition successfully rediscovered 21 species that were lost to science, including flowering ant-like beetles, three small iridescent fish, five jumping spiders, and this giant millipede 📸: Dmitry Telnov/NHM London, UK #ConservationOptimism #ReversetheRed #Madagascar thewcs americanbirdconservancy biodiversity_inventory_npo peregrinefund