scorpions
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436-Million-Year-Old Scorpion Was Among The Planet’s First Air Breathers
A newly described scorpion dating back to the early Silurian period is answering important questions about the first arachnids and the adaptations that enabled some of the earliest animals on Earth to migrate from aquatic to terrestrial habitats.
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The World’s Deadliest Scorpion Strike Is Even More Terrifying In Super Slow Motion
It’s known as the “death stalker” — a 8cm-long predatory arachnid capable of whipping its tail at speeds reaching 130cm/s. Footage shot with high-speed cameras shows how the death stalker and other scorpions use their deadly tails to ward off would-be predators and catch unsuspecting prey.
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Watch A Scorpion Sting A Guy In Painful Slow Motion
The beauty of slow motion is that it lets you see and analyse every detail of anything in a much more digestible package. Explosions become a dance, athletic achievements become more thoughtful, life becomes even more interesting and idiotic behaviour gets more hilarious. Watching a guy get stung by a scorpion in slow motion? Yeah,…
