CASABLANCA, Morocco – Extracting venom from scorpions can be a dangerous, but rewarding, task. The poisonous secretion, while fatal to humans, contains hundreds of components that have potential uses ...

Replenishing venom takes time and energy - so it pays to be stingy with stings. According to researchers at the Australian National Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, scorpions adapt their ...

A South African scorpion economizes as it stings, injecting a simple mix first, followed by a venom that’s more complicated to produce. The first droplet from the stinger of the Parabuthus ...

The sting of a scorpion can be deadly without the right antivenom handy—each year, some 3,000 people die from encounters with these poisonous arthropods. Now, a research team in Brazil has discovered ...

PHOENIX — In addition to talking to people about poisons and drugs, the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center also conducts research on scorpion stings and snake bites. Dr. Daniel Brooks said the ...

While more people are staying home, it seems our desert creepy-crawlers are getting out more. Poison centers across the country are reporting a 20% increase in scorpion stings from last year, ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science. The original is here. (ISNS) -- Hundreds of millions of years ago, when the ancestors of land animals crawled out of the seas and flopped on ...

Valley yoga enthusaist Sabrina Mullins was stung by a scorpion twice. She said there was nothing zen about it. "I'm not sure why it got me twice, but it got me pretty good," she said. Mullins had an ...

In a world where threat and possibility are frequently linked, there is one animal that stands out above the rest—instilling fear at its very presence. However, this seemingly threatening spider may ...

Feeling no pain? Freedom from hurting comes at the cost of getting stung for a desert-dwelling rodent called the southern grasshopper mouse. These rodents may be small—ranging from 1.5 to 2 ounces (40 ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo have discovered a molecule in arachnid venom that behaves like a commonly used chemotherapy drug for treating the disease. The venom of a scorpion native to ...