A University of Queensland study has shown that a deadly scorpion's venom carries an extra biochemical sting that could be used to guide future medical treatments and tests. The paper is published in ...

Scientists can now map deadly scorpion hotspots, helping protect millions from stings in vulnerable tropical regions.

Scorpions are small arachnid predators armed with a curved tail that can deliver a rapid venomous sting. While many species ...

On a muggy evening in a favela on the outskirts of São Paulo, a child screams. Her foot, moments ago tucked into a sandal, is now pulsing with pain. She’s been stung. Again. And she’s not alone.

Scorpions are "taking over" Brazil's cities, scientists have warned. And with these infestations comes a huge rise in stinging incidents, some of them fatal, and often caused by Brazilian yellow ...

They have a venomous stinger on one end, pincers on the other and a segmented body with eight legs and a bunch of eyes in the middle. They're spiders' even more frightening arachnid cousins. And as ...

Michel Dugon receives funding from the EU Erasmus Plus programme for staff and student mobility between the University Ibn Zohr of Agadir (Morocco) and the University of Galway (Ireland) For people ...

Many people deem scorpions as one of the most interesting members of the class Arachnida owing to their formidable looks, pincer-like pedipalps, and segmented tails that hold their telsons or stingers ...