An Arabian fat-tailed scorpion glows under a blacklight near a bunker at Ali Al Salem Air Base in Kuwait. The exoskeletons of the scorpions glow when ultraviolet light shines upon them.

Brett Pierson, flight test pilot at Textron Systems, takes Shephard through the capabilities of the Scorpion and its light attack and ISR mission profiles. To make this website work, we log user data.

Dubai-based wildlife photographer Anish Karingattil observes and photographs insects, amphibians and reptiles in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Rising water sent arachnids like the Arabian fat-tailed scorpion fleeing into local villages. Jasius via Getty Images. Sudden floods from a rare storm in Egypt have flushed swarms of scorpions ...

The Aswan mountains are home to the Arabian fat-tailed scorpion, or Androctonus crassicauda, which translates from Greek to “man-killer”.