Scorpions already have a pretty intimidating reputation. Between their venomous stingers, spooky-looking pincers, and their tendency to appear unexpectedly, scorpions are already quite daunting. But ...

Millions of years before Neolithic people thought of using metals to stab or crush their enemies, scorpions did the same thing, enhancing their stingers and claws with zinc, iron, manganese, and ...

The distribution and scale of metal enrichment among the deadly arthropods' weapons have been discovered for the first time.

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 armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior of their tail. These things look dangerous ...

Scorpions wield some of the natural world’s most formidable built-in weapons, from crushing pincers to venomous stingers. Scientists have long known that these structures contain trace metals that ...

(Fabrizio Moglia/Moment Open/Getty Images) Armed with stingers and pincers, scorpions sport some of the most formidable weapons in the animal kingdom – weapons which, it turns out, are reinforced with ...