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 ...

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 ...

It's common to see scorpions skittering across the Arizona desert. But a home built in the shape of a scorpion? That caused us to do a double take. Its curved concrete walls fit into the surrounding ...

Scientists can now map deadly scorpion hotspots, helping protect millions from stings in vulnerable tropical regions.

Many people deem scorpions as one of the most interesting members of the class Arachnida owing to their formidable looks, pincer-like pedipalps, and segmented tails that hold their telsons or stingers ...

I recently received a question about the use of technology in ecological research, which led to a discussion about blacklights. I wrote a column five years ago about a nighttime adventure in a ...

LOST DUTCHMAN STATE PARK, Arizona (AP) — As the setting sun left a yellow tinge on dirt-colored cactuses as far as the eye could see, park ranger Anna Roberts gave us a lesson on what we were about to ...

Scientists found a venomous animal hunting and burrowing in the San Joaquin Desert and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Jain, Forbes, Gorneau and Esposito (2023) Under the sweltering ...

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 ...