A scorpion does not look like an animal in need of more firepower. It arrives already armed, with claws at one end and a ...

A research team camping in one of Thailand’s most protected forests discovered a never-before-documented scorpion species hiding beneath a rock—a tiny predator barely an inch long with an unexpectedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Léo Laborieux, the sole author of the study, suspects venom projection likely developed in the scorpion as an adaptation to deter ...

Scorpions already have a pretty intimidating reputation. Between their venomous stingers, spooky-looking pincers, and their tendency to appear unexpectedly, scorpions are already quite daunting. But ...

The distribution and scale of metal enrichment among the deadly arthropods' weapons have been discovered for the first time.

Millions of years before Neolithic people thought of using metals to stab or crush their enemies, scorpions did the same thing, enhancing their stingers and claws with zinc, iron, manganese, and ...

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TUCSON — U.S. biologists said they have found a new species of scorpion that lives in close proximity to Tucson. According to United Press International the new species name is Vaejovis brysoni and ...

Scientists have developed a powerful new way to forecast where some of the world’s most dangerous scorpions are likely to be found. By combining fieldwork in Africa with advanced computer modeling, ...

Scorpions have survived for more than 400 million years and endured five mass extinctions, but habitat destruction, climate change and overharvesting now pose significant threats to their survival.

The distribution and scale of metal enrichment among the deadly arthropods' weapons have been discovered for the first time.