Whether you’re an Arizona native or just visiting, you've almost certainly wondered about scorpions. About 40 to 60 species of these arachnids live in the Grand Canyon State, according to the Arizona ...

As far as college cliques go, one crowd that hangs out on the University of Delaware’s South Campus is pretty typical. There is the popular one. There is the shy one. There is the model citizen who ...

People are eating insects for fun, and we want to know why anyone would ever voluntarily put a bug in their mouth. We're not talking about eating them for the wow factor like kids do with scorpion ...

Fables have long cast scorpions as bad-natured killers of hapless turtles that naively agree to ferry them across rivers. Scientists, however, see them in a different light. Insect toxicologists and ...

An eastern lubber grasshopper, or Romalea guttata sits on a leaf at the Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Photos by Jenny Marder. And now, an end-of-the-week pause to celebrate ...

They look like a mix between a scorpion and a spider, spray acid to protect themselves and eat cockroaches for dinner — and now they've been spotted in Texas. A vinegaroon, an arachnid also known as a ...

As we pass through winter’s halfway point, one of nature’s toughest pests has begun stirring: Scorpions. In fact, due to the lower temperatures this time of year that are the total opposite of their ...

LONDON – This was a bug you couldn’t swat and definitely couldn’t step on. British scientists have stumbled across a fossilized claw, part of an ancient sea scorpion, that is of such large proportion ...

An entomology professor has discovered how to use scorpion genes to create a hypervirulent fungus that can kill specific insect pests, including mosquitoes that carry malaria and a beetle that ...

Some of the most feared invertebrate animals are scorpions. Their name often conjures images of a dangerous, sneaky, and treacherous animal, but this impression is largely incorrect or biased.

In Southeast Asia and elsewhere, insects have long been an integral part of the human diet, and nowadays scorpions can be ordered on skewers, while ants fill spring rolls and silkworms star in ...

Extra oxygen explains why Stan Wood, a sharp-eyed commercial fossil-hunter from Scotland, did so well out of a dilapidated old limestone farm wall that he spotted next to a school football field in ...