It’s easy to see how the scorpion fly got its name. The giant “stinger” at the back curls up just like the tail of a scorpion. The good news is, that’s not a stinger. Still, I would avoid touching it, ...

The twists and turns of a scorpion's underground burrows are generally inaccessible to anything that isn't a scorpion — including scientists. That is, until now. Researchers used an unusual method to ...

A new species of short-tailed whip scorpion has been discovered by two arachnologists, Gustavo Ruiz and Roberta Valente of the Universidade Federal do Pará in Brazil, who described the new species in ...

A scorpion, Scorpio palmatus, under ultraviolet light. The twists and turns of a scorpion's underground burrows are generally inaccessible to anything that isn't a scorpion — including scientists.