Although you would not want to be bitten by one, it probably wouldn't kill youâit would just cause agonizing pain.Bites from related centipedes of about the same size as It sounds like some peopleâs worst nightmare: if you go for a dip in a nice stream at night, there might be giant centipedes lurking in the water.But to scientists like Beccaloni and Edgecombe, the new discovery is further proof of all the wonders of nature that are still unknown to us.âPeople tend to study streams in the tropics during the day, but there is probably a whole other range of interesting amphibious things that come out at night,â says Beccaloni. âIt would be good to study these streams and their fauna then to see what is actually going on under the cover of darkness.â