Many people deem scorpions as one of the most interesting members of the class Arachnida owing to their formidable looks, pincer-like pedipalps, and segmented tails that hold their telsons or stingers ...

Scared of spiders? How about scorpions? Scientists may have just discovered your worst nightmare. A 100-million-year-old arachnid preserved in amber doesn't just have eight legs, but the tail of a ...

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JJ would have been crushed by the shoe of a Mesa man more than two weeks ago if she weren’t such a rarity. Instead, the bark scorpion found worldwide recognition on eBay and ended up in what may be ...

A fight between a scorpion and a tarantula sounds uncommon, and in fact, it is. Though both are deadly major predators and ...

A University of Queensland study has shown that a deadly scorpion's venom carries an extra biochemical sting that could be used to guide future medical treatments and tests. The paper is published in ...

Faced with a predator, some animals choose to fight. Others flee. A select few fracture themselves into pieces. Certain scorpions, like many lizards, are capable of breaking off part of their tail ...