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Scorpions have been around for a long time and researchers think they were among the first animals to become terrestrial. There is a debate going on…

Scorpions have developed multiple strategies for the defense against predators ranging from playing dead, running away to fighting back with the use…

Scorpions have been collected for several centuries and fortunately many collectors have deposited the specimens into museum collections. The…

Rolando Teruel and co-workers have recently published a redescription of the little known scorpion Tityus estherae Santiago-Blay, 2009 (Buthidae)…

Thi-Hang Tran and co-workers have recently published a redescription of Euscorpius sejnai (Kovařík, 2000) (Euscorpiidae) from…

Wilson Lourenco and Paulo Motta have recently published an article describing a new species of Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Buthidae) from Central…

A Happy New Year to all the readers of The Scorpion Files!Frantisek Kovarik published a revision of the Mexican genus Megacormus Karsch, 1881…

Human activities and habitat change or destruction will have an impact on the scorpion fauna in an area in different ways. Some species die out, some…

The ability of males to find females and behave correctly is important in most animals, and especially in species where the individuals are solitary…

It has been known for a long time that scorpions can smell (detect chemical substances) with their pectines and pedipalpal fingers. Zia Nisani and…