A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. Fragments of this novel species were discovered in 1870 in the St Maughans geologic formation ...

A Mexican-made antivenom that cures children of severe nerve poisoning and was tested in clinical trials through the University of Arizona was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Police said the 28-year-old man had the scorpions hidden between clothing in his suitcase. (South Africa Police Service via X) In a statement posted to social media platform X, the South Africa Police ...

South African authorities arrested a 28-year-old man whom they caught trafficking 150 venomous scorpions through Cape Town airport, police said on Saturday. The man had concealed the live arachnids ...

Imagine a huge scorpion the size of a baseball bat, scrambling over mossy rocks and around large, treelike structures before slipping into a nearby stream. That’s how a team of scientists describes ...

It’s an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare. A child-size scorpion that roamed the UK 400 million years ago is thought to be largest of its kind to ever exist, per a skin-crawling study in the journal ...

Scorpions' fearsome sting and pincers are fortified with metal, reveals new research. Scientists have uncovered the distribution and scale of metal enrichment among the deadly arthropods' weapons for ...

Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior of their tail. These things look dangerous ...