The more evolutionarily advanced scorpions have the reverse: large tails and small claws. They traded mechanical means of catching prey for the ability to inflict a chemical death.

With a fairly small body, marked by the red giant star Antares, the scorpion has three stars in front representing its claws, and a long curving tail behind, ending in two bright stars marking its ...

Scorpions dispatch small prey by crushing them with their claws; ... The boundaries accepted today give Libra possession of the two stars that once marked the tips of the Scorpion's claws.

The more evolutionarily advanced scorpions have the reverse: large tails and small claws. They traded mechanical means of catching prey for the ability to inflict a chemical death.

Roughly 400 million years ago, scorpions the size of small alligators roamed our oceans. With their powerful claws and thick exoskeletons, these 2.5m-long predators dominated their world. Until ...

British researchers said Tuesday that they have discovered an 18-inch-long fossilized claw of an ancient sea scorpion that would have been 8 feet long, making it the largest arthropod ever discovered.

Small arachnids hitch a ride on the scorpion, possibly to get inside food-rich ant nests. ... They have eight legs and claws like their much larger arachnid relatives but lack a stinging tail.

The nearly half-illuminated moon rises tonight (Sept. 2) in the southwestern sky near the row of small white stars that form the scorpion’s claws. Here’s how to see it.