Walton was considering keeping the scorpion. He said the clinic's long-time mascot scorpion recently died; the arachnids can live up to 10 years.

Both of those arguments are wrong. Looking like a cross between a spider and a scorpion, the sun spider is an arachnid but fits into neither of the families, the spider or scorpion.

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