TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - News reports about a “land lobster” found at a national park in Texas were shared widely in July, and it turns out the species is also native to the Sunshine State. An ...

Its name invokes a sense of fear and awe: the giant whip scorpion. It has claws and a whip-like tail emerging from its midsection. It looks like a cross between a scorpion, a spider and some sort of ...

The three new species of whip scorpion were found throughout Mexico, a study said. Photo by Liz Schorr on Unsplash CORRECTION: A previous version of this story listed the wrong number of legs for the ...

Q: Now this is a bug! What the hell is it? Eerily beautiful and frightful at the same time. A: What you have is a whip scorpion. The only whip scorpion found in the United States is the giant whip ...

CORRECTION: A previous version of this story listed the wrong number of legs for the new species. They have eight legs. The corrected story is below. A small critter uses its eight legs to scurry ...