As the desert heats up, scorpions — including the notorious Arizona bark scorpions — become more active, leading to more frequent sightings not only outdoors but in homes and other buildings. These ...

Ah, the scorpion lollipop, a symbol of the Sonoran Desert. I like them, if only for the campiness of the dark, goth-looking scorpion encased unhappily in a gentle green, pink or blue. That said, even ...

PHOENIX — Meet the Arizona Bark Scorpion -- the most common scorpion in the Phoenix area out of the 60+ species of scorpions found in Arizona. It also happens to be the most venomous and only lethal ...

PHOENIX — Meet the Arizona Bark Scorpion -- the most common scorpion in the Phoenix area out of the 60+ species of scorpions found in Arizona. It also happens to be the most venomous and only lethal ...

The scorpions that scurry around this desert region emerged from their winter slumber early this year. Usually dormant until late March, the creatures came out in February as temperatures soared, ...

They have a venomous stinger on one end, pincers on the other and a segmented body with eight legs and a bunch of eyes in the middle. They're spiders' even more frightening arachnid cousins. And as ...

LOST DUTCHMAN STATE PARK, Arizona — 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 hunt ...

Tiny venomous scorpions are swarming around homes in Scottsdale, Arizona. They're filling backyards and even crawling into people's showers and beds. A scorpion in an Arizona yard or home is not an ...

Zoologists have discovered a new species of Sky Island scorpion from the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona, less than 10 miles from metropolitan Tucson. Amazingly, the discovery was made by a ...

LeBron James had a close encounter with a scorpion while staying in Arizona ahead of the Oct. 17 Los Angeles Lakers preseason game against the Phoenix Suns. James took to his Instagram to share a ...

I haven't had much experience with scorpions. As a kid growing up in Cataula, Ga., I occasionally found small ones scurrying around the house or yard. My dad swears they were southern devil scorpions, ...