Less than 10% of Australian scorpions are known to science. We've added two new species to the list
- Written by: Bruno Alves Buzatto, Lecturer, Flinders University
Mark Newton/iNaturalist, CC BY-NCScorpions are among the most ancient of land animals. Fossils indicate they were roaming the Earth more than 400 million years ago. For perspective, the non-bird dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago.
Scorpions trivialise the 100-million-year reign of the dinosaurs — they saw them come and go and...
