10 UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT SCORPION
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10 UNKNOWN FACTS ABOUT SCORPION A scorpion can have as many as 100 babies in a single brood. They are born alive, not hatched from eggs like insects. When they are born, baby scorpions have a very soft outside shell, or exoskeleton. They crawl up onto their mother's back and ride there for 10 to 20 days until their exoskeleton gets stiff and hard. Then they crawl off and begin life on their own. A hungry mother scorpion will eat her own babies if resources are scarce. But some baby scorpions can be cannibals too. The young while starving eat their mother slowly. Most people know scorpions can inflict a painful sting, but not much else about the amazing arthropods. Though they are never going to be called cute or cuddly, Scorpions sure are interesting! They are arachnids, making them close cousins to spiders. On today's Nature and Wildlife, we will review some interesting facts about this small but scary animal. 1. There are over 1750 known species of scorpion. While humans gene...