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COOL SCORPION FACTS

Added on: 11th Apr 2016

 

 

THERE ABOUT 1750 DIFFERENT SCORPION SPECIES

WITH 13 EXTANT FAMILIES KNOWN TO SCIENTISTS

scorpion

 

 

ALL SCORPIONS ARE VENOMOUS BUT ONLY ABOUT

25 SPECIES ARE KNOWN TO HAVE VENOM

CAPABLE OF KILLING A HUMAN BEING

scorpion

 

 

SCORPIONS ARE ONE OF THE OLDEST ANIMALS ON EARTH.

THEIR EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY GOES BACK TO THE

SILURIAN ERA 430 MILLION YEARS AGO. THEY EVOLVED

FROM GIANT SCORPION-LIKE CREATURES THAT EMERGED

FROM THE SEA AND HAVE REMAINED MORPHOLOGICALLY

UNCHANGED UNTIL NOW

Scorpion ancestor

 

 

THEIR LIFESPAN IS NOT VERY LONG THOUGH.

SCORPIONS USUALLY LIVE UP TO 8 YEARS IN THE WILD

Scorpion

 

 

SCORPIONS HAVE EXCELLENT ADAPTATION ABILITIES.

THEY ARE FOUND ON ALL CONTINENTS WITH THE

EXCEPTION OF ANTARCTICA

Scorpion

 

 

ALTHOUGH THEY RESEMBLE CRUSTACEANS LIKE

CRAYFISH AND CRABS, SCORPIONS ARE ACTUALLY

MORE CLOSELY RELATED TO TICKS, MITES AND SPIDERS

MAURUS PALMATUS

 

 

SCORPIONS CAN SLOW DOWN THEIR METABOLISM

WHEN FOOD IS RARE. THEY CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT

FOOD FOR UP TO ONE YEAR

Scorpion

 

 

SCORPIONS RANGE IN SIZE GREATLY – THE SMALLEST

SPECIES IS JUST ABOUT 9 MM (0.35 IN) LONG WHILE

THE LARGEST SPECIES CAN REACH OVER 20 CM (8 IN)

Scorpion

 

 

SCORPIONS TEND TO LIVE IN AREAS WITH

TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM 68 TO 99 DEGREES F

(20 TO 37 C) BUT THEY CAN HANDLE MUCH MORE

EXTREME TEMPERATURES. RESEARCHERS HAVE EVEN

FROZEN SCORPIONS OVERNIGHT, ONLY TO PUT THEM

IN THE SUN THE NEXT DAY AND WATCH THEM THAW

OUT AND WALK AWAY

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