In this Brave Wilderness YouTube clip, you are transported to a desert in Dubai – otherwise known as scorpion country. Under ...

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

Scorpions are incredible hunters, and while we knew that metals strengthen the weapons in some species’ arsenals, we don’t ...

Scorpions are optimized hunters, whose skills have been honed through millions of years of evolution. An armored exoskeleton, ...

Learn how metals like zinc and manganese reinforce scorpion stingers and claws, and how their placement shapes strength, ...

Many scorpion species carry zinc and other heavy metals in their pincers and stingers, according to new research.

Scientists knew the stingers and pincers of these arachnids generally contained metals, but a new Smithsonian-led study maps ...

The Pakistani yellow scorpion uses its venom to incapacitate prey. But new research shows that it might also be used to cure a range of maladies, even cancer. Part of scorpions’ evolutionary success ...