A: I love the idea of a teaching garden that provides opportunities for hands-on learning, observation skill sharpening and the chance to be outside where the perspective is different. A shaded spot ...

Scorpion's tail is one of four heliotrope species that are native to South Florida. Unlike the garden heliotrope — which has large, often fragrant, flower clusters — this native has dainty, unscented, ...

Scared of spiders? How about scorpions? Scientists may have just discovered your worst nightmare. A 100-million-year-old arachnid preserved in amber doesn't just have eight legs, but the tail of a ...

April 18 (UPI) --Before sharks and giant squids came to haunt the ocean depths, a different kind of predator reigned supreme -- sea scorpions. New research suggests sea scorpions, or eurypterids, ...

JJ would have been crushed by the shoe of a Mesa man more than two weeks ago if she weren’t such a rarity. Instead, the bark scorpion found worldwide recognition on eBay and ended up in what may be ...

Trapped in amber, preserved for all time, is one of the weirdest and most terrifying arachnid fossils scientists have ever come across. In research published today in Nature Ecology and Evolution as ...

What happens when you give an Italian design studio free reign to create an electric car wearing one of Italy's most celebrated badges? You get the Abarth ScorpION concept, by IED. Unusually the ...

A scorpion on the defensive might break off its tail in order to escape -- sacrificing its stinger and even its anus as a result. The stump heals quickly, but the discarded bits never grow back, ...

One of my favorite constellations is Scorpius, the scorpion, because it’s one of the few that looks like what it’s supposed to be. But for stargazers in Minnesota and Wisconsin, the great scorpion ...

Ancient sea scorpions were hacks. Some of the marine creatures had a thin, serrated spine on the tip of their tail — and that tail was surprisingly flexible, based on a 430-million-year-old fossil ...

Related to both modern scorpions and horseshoe crabs, sea scorpions had thin, flexible bodies. Some species also had pinching claws and could grow up to three metres in length. New research that the ...