Scorpions : Discovery News

Weird Weather is Making America Antsy

Posted Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:36 PM ET | 0

Is your house driving you buggy? The top pest issues for homeowners in the last year were ants (49 percent), spiders (43 percent), flies (37 percent), mosquitoes (34 percent), mice (30 percent) and wasps (29 percent). Read more

Spiny-Headed Predator Dominated Pre-Dino Seas

Posted by Jennifer Viegas Wed May 25, 2011 01:00 PM ET | 0

The bizarre animal with spiny head appendages, body blades and jointed legs thrived in the oceans 542 to 472 million years ago. Read more

Scorpion Venom Tapped as Pesticide

Posted by Emily Sohn Tue Jan 19, 2010 03:55 AM ET | 0

A scorpion-inspired pesticide could kill specific insects without harming people, the environment or beneficial animals. Read more

Wide Angle: Venom

Posted Thu Jan 14, 2010 02:31 PM ET

Poisonous animals arm up with chemical weaponry and defenses in the battle to find food, or avoid becoming it. Read more

'Drowned' Spiders Come Back From the Dead : Discovery News

Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009 09:26 PM ET

When Julien Petillon wanted to see how long a salt marsh-dwelling wolf spider could survive underwater, he did the logical thing -- he submerged them, and waited until they died. Read more

Spider-Ant? Spider Mimics Ants to Scare off Predators: Discovery News

Posted Wed Jun 24, 2009 03:40 AM ET

Tarantulas and black widows may cause human Miss Muffets to get off their tuffets, but new research shows many spiders themselves run for their lives if they encounter Myrmarachne melanotarsa, a gregarious jumping spider that pretends to be an ant. Read more