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Frantisek Kovarik and co-workers have published an article where the revise the species of Hottentotta Birula, 1908 (Buthidae) described by the…

Sexual selection often favors larger body size and/or greater weight in males. Larger males have better condition and are able to perform more…

Oscar Francke has written a chapter about the scorpion distribution in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in Mexico in the recently published book "Animal…

Frantisek Kovarik and co-workers have published a new species of Barbaracurus Kovarik, Lowe & Stahlavsky, 2018 (Buthidae) from…

Madagascar has always been a hotspot for biodiversity and has many endemic taxa, also among scorpions. The genus with the largest number of endemic…

Gerard Contreras-Felix and Oscar Francke have recently published a taxonomic revision of the “ mexicanus” group of the genus Vaejovis C. L.…

A very tabloid headline for this post, but I felt I couldn't plagiarize the nice original article title "Selected to survive and kill". Scorpion…

The Caribbean islands have a large scorpion population where many species are endemic for this area. But how did this unique fauna originate? There…

Andre Lira and co-workers have recently publised a study looking into how scorpion diversity, species richness, and species composition respond to…

Since Aristoteles first mentioned the presence of scorpions in Greece, the number of taxa belonging to this country have increased very much in the…