Luckily for Michael (who asked me not to give his full name), the bark scorpion is common ... That’s venom at work. Ironically, the properties that make venom deadly are also what make it ...

Scientists in Colombia have discovered a new species of scorpion, Tityus achilles, which can spray venom to defend itself ...

a small peptide derived from scorpion venom, binds to a large proportion of brain tumor cells, despite the vast cellular heterogeneity of these cancers. The authors argue that this novel design could ...

The Tityus achilles is one of the few scorpions capable of spraying and flicking venom at its prey – which is why the ...