(Fabrizio Moglia/Moment Open/Getty Images) Armed with stingers and pincers, scorpions sport some of the most formidable weapons in the animal kingdom – weapons which, it turns out, are reinforced with ...

Scientists knew the stingers and pincers of these arachnids generally contained metals, but a new Smithsonian-led study maps out how these components are distributed ...

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Scorpions are armed with dual front pincers (technically known as chelae or pedipalp appendages) and a venom-injecting telson, or stinger, on the posterior of their tail. These things look dangerous ...

A scorpion does not look like an animal in need of more firepower. It arrives already armed, with claws at one end and a ...

Scientists studied 18 species and found iron and zinc concentrated at the puncturing tips and grasping edges to improve prey capture. Scorpions’ stingers and pincers are reinforced with trace metals ...