![]() ![]() While Australian scorpions can give you a nasty sting if you step on one or take it by surprise, their venom is not deadly. "This means they can live for years and can go years without food." Australian scorpion stings painful but not lethal "When they're not active they have the metabolic rate about the same as radish that is, they're almost turned off," Professor Rowell said. ![]() Scorpions are really quite fascinating nocturnal arachnids: they glow under ultra-violet light, the females bear live young and carry them around on their backs, and they can survive in extreme conditions. A black rock scorpion carrying its young on its back at Mulligans Flat in Canberra.
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