Groups of 15 to 20 people armed with ultraviolet flashlights fanned out into the desert off Snow Creek Road and Highway 111 Tuesday night, keeping their eyes trained on the sand as they moved slowly ...

PALM DESERT, Calif. (The Desert Sun) -- They're babies pretty much only a scorpion mother could love. About 20 baby scorpions are now on display at The Living Desert - in an enclosure so you can enjoy ...

Armed with my newest toy, I headed out into the desert at night to hunt for scorpions. The advertisement claimed that this flashlight could make scorpions glow, or, more precisely, fluoresce, 40 feet ...

About 50 people gathered in the Art Smith parking lot of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument on a balmy Saturday evening. They chattered and smiled as they took swigs of water ...

Deserts are not easy places to call home. Broiling in the day, frigid at night, and lacking ample water, these landscapes test their inhabitants. The creatures that call deserts home have adaptations ...

Scorpions are active in Utah all year, but you might start encountering them more frequently as the weather gets colder. An expert shared all you need to know about how to avoid getting stung and ...

Scientists have discovered that scorpions design their burrows to include both hot and cold spots. A long platform provides a sunny place to warm up before they hunt, whilst a humid chamber acts as a ...

Simple robots may survive in circumstances where smarter devices would fail, argue US researchers. According to this week's New Scientist, Frank Kirchner and Alan Rudolph at Northeastern University in ...

The very thought of getting close to a scorpion may sound scary to some. It’s understandable, considering that they have a stinger at the end of their tail and pincers at the front that don’t look so ...

Alex Goligoski got a phone call this summer from his landscaper, notifying him that a monsoon storm had blown through his neighborhood and popped open a door on his house. He didn’t think much of it ...