The commonest scorpion in Iberia; its sting is painful but not deadly.
From Common Yellow Scorpion
Like all scorpions, it glows a fluorescent blue-green under ultraviolet light, a phenomenon whose function is still debated.
From Common Yellow Scorpion
The females give birth to live young that climb onto their back and ride there until the first moult.
From Common Yellow Scorpion
It has been listed in CITES Appendix II since 1995, because demand from the pet trade once meant hundreds of thousands of animals were exported a year.
From Common Emperor Scorpion
It is one of the few scorpions with any social life: mothers and young may share a burrow, and family groups have been seen hunting together.
From Common Emperor Scorpion
The females give birth to live white young that climb onto their back, where they stay until the first moult.
From Common Emperor Scorpion
Its scientific name literally means man-killer.
From Fattailed Scorpion
It withstands doses of radiation that would be lethal to a mammal, a tolerance documented in several desert scorpions.
From Fattailed Scorpion

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