
Scorpion | Description, Habitat, Species, Diet, & Facts | Britannica
3 天之前 · Scorpion, any of approximately 1,500 elongated arachnid species characterized by a segmented curved tail tipped with a venomous stinger at the rear of the body and a pair of …
scorpion - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
Scorpions are small animals with a curved tail that can deliver a poisonous sting. Of the 1,400 species, or kinds, of scorpion, about 25 can kill people with their poison. Most scorpions will …
Scorpion - Deserts, Nocturnal, Venomous | Britannica
2025年3月1日 · Scorpion - Deserts, Nocturnal, Venomous: Scorpions are largely nocturnal, and their habitat range from the intertidal zone to snow-covered mountains to caves. Most …
scorpion - Students | Britannica Kids | Homework Help
Scorpions have been found at elevations from sea level to more than 16,000 feet (5,000 meters) in mountains of Europe and North and South America. A few species live as far north as …
Scorpion - Anatomy, Behavior, Venom | Britannica
4 天之前 · Scorpions perceive the world through visual, tactile, and chemical sense organs. Their eyes cannot form sharp images, but their central eyes are among the most sensitive to light in …
Sunspider | Desert, Nocturnal, Solifugae | Britannica
2025年1月18日 · Sunspider, (order Solifugae), any of more than 1,000 species of the arthropod class Arachnida whose common name refers to their habitation of hot dry regions as well as to …
Scorpions and their venoms | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
scorpion, Any of some 1,300 nocturnal arachnid species (order Scorpionida, subphylum Chelicerata) having a slender body, a segmented tail tipped with a venomous stinger, and six …
Water scorpion | Aquatic, Predator, Nymph | Britannica
water scorpion, any of the approximately 150 species of aquatic invertebrates of the family Nepidae (order Hemiptera). The water scorpion resembles a land scorpion in certain ways: it …
Constellation, Zodiac, Sign, Symbol, Dates, & Facts - Britannica
2025年2月4日 · Its representation as a scorpion is related to the Greek legend of the scorpion that stung Orion to death (said to be why Orion sets as Scorpius rises in the sky). Another Greek …
Tailless whip scorpion | Nocturnal, Cave-Dwelling, Venomous
Tailless whip scorpion, (order Amblypygi, sometimes Phrynichida), any of 70 species of the arthropod class Arachnida that are similar in appearance to whip scorpions (order Uropygi) but …