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SCORPIONS **Introduction:** The Scorpion is a type of Arthropod. A scorpion is a crawling insect. There are about 1,700 hundred different species of scorpions. Scorpions are on every continent other than Antarctic. Fossils have been found back 430 millions of years ago **Anatomy:** Scorpions have two body parts – an abdomen and a tail. Their head is part of the abdomen. They have eight legs. They also have many eyes. Scorpions have a stinger on their tail. They also have two larger legs at the front.

**Habitat:** Most scorpions live in the ground but some are found in trees. They like 20 to 40 degrees C. They need to be able to dig a burrow, so scorpions can live in sandy deserts.

**Feeding and predators:** Scorpions are nocturnal. They also like to look for food at night time. They are aggressive when finding prey. The scorpions use vibrations to find their prey and then they will strike it when they sense it.

The scorpion’s predators are rodents, lizards, birds and also other scorpions, bats and humans will kill them for being pests and also catch them for food.
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Life cycle: Scorpion female have eight hundred little scorpions at a time, depending on the species. The babies grow in their mum. Then they are born alive and then crawl up onto their mother’s back. They stay on their mother’s back for several weeks. Once off their mother’s back they are on their own. The average life span is two to ten years.

Did you know?


 * There are 40to50 different scorpion species that have poison strong enough to kill people.
 * Scorpions like to hide in shoes.
 * Scorpions can be up to 20 cm long
 * Scorpions can have up to ten eye’s but they can’t see very well
 * Scorpions have fluorescent shells with UV light.