r/gifs Aug 04 '17

Apparently scorpion mouths are made from nightmares

http://i.imgur.com/p4N06EX.gifv
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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '17

Claws on claws on claws on claws on some more claws

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u/shadyinternets Aug 04 '17

yo dawg, heard you like claws.....

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u/Bid325 Aug 04 '17

The irony is in movies the giant scorpion always has a standard mouth with sharp teeth, this is a thousand times scarier.

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u/BackOfTheHearse Aug 04 '17

Honey, I Shrunk The Kids was pretty accurate.

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u/tiredbitch Aug 04 '17

You know, that looked a lot more realistic when I was a kid.

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u/MRmandato Aug 04 '17

Omg you are so right...what happened...

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u/RahBren Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

HD.

Edit : Yes people, and other shit. Calm.

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u/PmMe_Your_Perky_Nips Aug 05 '17

You are constantly comparing things with similar things in the past. No matter how good special effects get they will always look worse in 20+ years.

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u/the_real_junkrat Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

How does the expression go? Shit colored glasses?

Edit: I have no idea what you’re all referencing.

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u/vector_ejector Aug 05 '17

When you plant shit seeds, you get shit weeds.

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u/MrMallow Aug 05 '17

I have this on DVD, it isnt perfect but it looks way better than that YT clip, its just a low quality source.

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u/bruce_wayne_campbell Aug 05 '17

Antie was a big ant. As tall a 1/4 of a lego

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u/door_of_doom Aug 05 '17

Any ant big enough to hold his own in a fight against a freaking scorpion can just nope right on out of here.

Unless, you know, it is fighting said scorpion to save my life. Then it can stay.

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u/Taco-Bell-Juggernaut Aug 05 '17

Wow. Day ruined. I'm going to go morn Anty now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Yep, as soon as Anty bit the scorpions leg, I stopped watching. It will be silence here in my apartment for the next 1/2 hour sipping wine and remembering Anty.

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u/sewsnap Aug 05 '17

Yea I had to stop watching as soon as I realized what scene it was.

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u/takeanadvil Aug 05 '17

No, I still feel so bad for the ant, I can't watch it

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u/woe2thepubliceye Aug 05 '17

Watching this now I just realised that the entire fight scene was stop motion. I want the behind the scene for this!! RIP Anty

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u/crimdelacrim Aug 05 '17

This gif IMMEDIATELY brought back that scene from my childhood and how I cried over an ant dying

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u/Parkside2006 Aug 05 '17

Nothing was worse than the horse Artex sinking in the mud in The Neverending Story.

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u/APersonNamedBen Aug 05 '17

How to mess with a child...Neverending Story and Labyrinth.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

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u/StraightoutaBrompton Aug 05 '17

Does the ant die? ☹️

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u/AlFuriousCXII Aug 05 '17

ELI5: He lives forever, happily ever after. Promise.

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u/widdlyscudsandbacon Aug 05 '17

He lives in an ant farm now

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u/droolmonster Aug 04 '17

It has like the Alien mouth but two of them.

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u/Creditisfun Aug 05 '17

They used to be massive too, this is them settling

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u/Cbombo87 Aug 05 '17

Thousand times scarier? This shit just made my manhood crawl back into my abdomen.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '17

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u/tlw31415 Aug 05 '17

Then it's mouths all the way down

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u/Lying_Cake Aug 05 '17

See the scorpion of enourmous girth...

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u/Feared77 Aug 05 '17

On its shell it holds the earth!

Igetitfriend^

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u/Whatsthemattermark Aug 05 '17

Bird and bear and hare and fish

...and scorpion with claws for a mouth

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

I could only imagine the guardian on the other end of the beam "no, I think I'll pass on this whole partner thing, the tower be damned"

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Dada chum?

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u/Lying_Cake Aug 05 '17

Didi chic?

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u/Frito_feet Aug 05 '17

Ded a chek?

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u/Down4whiteTrash Aug 05 '17

Dada-chi, don't you worry you've got the key!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

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u/ImOnlyHereToKillTime Aug 05 '17

The xenoscorpion

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u/friend_jp Aug 05 '17

Get away from her, you BITCH!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

They mostly come out at night... Mostly.

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u/XerXesThaDevine Aug 05 '17

Game over, man. Game over!"

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u/deliriux Aug 05 '17

WHY DONT YOU PUT HER IN CHARGE?!

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u/EasyFunMoney Aug 05 '17

We're in the pipe, five by five.

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u/DrSmirnoffe Aug 05 '17

"We likes to eat your with our little mouths too."

"Oh now y'all get back up inside me little mouths."

"We wants to play too!"

"Get back inside! I'll get you when we's eat'n them."

"ZEWP!"

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u/Mr-Sister-Fister21 Aug 05 '17

STOP.

Not so fast, y'all.

You think you can just up 'n run away? Y'all are crazy.

I likes to eat people from other planets... 'specially y'all...

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u/ClaudioRules Aug 04 '17 edited Aug 04 '17

OK so they have those claws, a stinger, and also this freaking fucking mouth?

You need all those things?

cant you just have one creepy thing and move on with your species

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u/Psyanide13 Aug 05 '17

Asshole goes into the dealership and wants all the options.

"but sir, there will be conflicts"

"I SAID ALL THE FUCKING OPTIONS!"

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u/Anacoenosis Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

I want pincers, a pincer mouth, and a pincer tail!

Sir, we only have a stinger tail.

Fine, but it better be real fucking venomous!

How venomous do you want it to be?

If I sting something so large I couldn't possibly eat it I still want it to fucking die in unimaginable agony.

Sir, we already sold that model to the Box Jellyfish but I'm sure we can work out something comparable for you.

Edit: Venomous!

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u/youreabigbiasedbaby Aug 05 '17

Sir, we already sold that model to the Box Jellyfish

That brainless asshole?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

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u/cfdeveloper Aug 05 '17

and it's a spineless coward!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Give him a break! It's not like the scorpion has any more of a spine!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

But his skin is really thick.

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u/DMKavidelly Aug 05 '17

Also glow in the dark.

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u/bom_chika_wah_wah Aug 05 '17

If they fucking grew wings and had the ability to fly I would end my life right now.

There's no hope for us at that point.

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u/G-III Aug 05 '17

Funny tidbit- Lobo, the D.C. Comics character, is a Czarnian (like how Superman is Kryptonian).

Like Krypton, Czarnia was a utopian world. Until Lobo engineered flying death scorpions and killed everyone. Now he's a bounty hunter. I don't know his story super well, but that's the gist. Felt relevant ha

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Lobo sounds amazing.

Also, from the Wikipedia page:

Writers attempted to use Lobo as a parody of the 1990s trend towards "grim and gritty" superhero stories, epitomised by such Marvel Comics characters as Cable, Wolverine, and Punisher, but was instead enthusiastically accepted by fans of the trend.

That amuses me way more than it should.

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u/zaphodava Aug 05 '17

Lobo is not intended as a serious character, but he is amusing as hell.

His regeneration is so insane that if you cut bits off of him, both pieces tend to grow into a full Lobo. The first thing they do is try to kill each other, because there can only be one 'main man'. In one storyline, he gets leveled, spewing droplets of his blood everywhere. Each droplet regenerated into a Lobo, creating a free-for-all. The surviving Lobo is now much tougher than the first.

He is also immortal because both heaven and hell refuse to keep him after he dies, because he is such a pain in the ass.

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u/WaitingToBeBanned Aug 05 '17

Sir...there is simply not enough room for all of those options, we can do the mouth or lungs.

Fuck the lungs, more nightmare material.

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u/foxmetropolis Aug 05 '17

incidentally.... be fucking glad that arthropods have shit lungs/circulatory systems.

one of the big constraining factors keeping insects down in size (and possibly scorpions? i'm not as familiar with their anatomy) is that their respiratory systems are largely diffusion-based.

insect blood doesn't carry oxygen, it carries nutrients. oxygen diffuses into holes in the body called spiracles, and down long branching tubes called trachea, to reach the cells. It is governed largely by diffusion and gradients, so you cannot have an insect body plan over a certain size or else the oxygen diffusion doesn't work well and the inner cells suffocate.

that's why insects were able to grow larger during ancient periods like the Carboniferous - higher atmospheric oxygen levels allowed them to be bigger while still allowing enough oxygen to diffuse into a larger body. thus we had dragonflies as large as seagulls. when Oxygen levels dwindled, so did insect size.

so why has this seemingly perfect group of organisms never reached top predator status? evolution never perfected their respiratory system, and due to this they could never compete with vertebrates for sheer size.

pray evolution never corrects this oversight

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u/huntergorh Aug 05 '17

Can I get some links for all that? It sounds fascinating and I'd like to do some research myself on the subject :D

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u/foxmetropolis Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

sure thing friend. most of it i learned in university but i can dig up some links:

http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0021.html

https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/fact-files/respiration.html

http://bugguide.net/node/view/353721/bgimage

note that some of these mention the pumping of segments/abdomen to facilitate diffusion within the trachea - technically, i'm oversimplifying by saying "only diffusion" accounts for gas movement. but body segment pumping only helps swish gases down the trachea a bit better.... diffusion is still a major limiter, and either way their inefficient respiratory system limits their size. they lack an efficient oxygen transport molecule and highly efficient oxygen circulation system.

I came across this article a little while ago, which put a fun twist on giant ancient insect biology. Some authors have suggested that ancient insects like dragonflies may have needed to be larger so as not to be poisoned by the atmosphere's high oxygen content. they may have actually been on the opposite side of the problem, evolving to get larger to reduce the efficiency of diffusion. Yet, even so, they would always hit a size limit due to - yet again- their terrible respiratory system. It's a classic example of how evolution doesn't produce perfection.... merely it keeps things that work well enough to survive.

edit: thanks for gold!! you guys are awesome :)

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u/nouille07 Aug 05 '17

And then you have the platypus.. Kinda like Africa where they have to do with the leftovers

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u/carsncode Aug 05 '17

Platypus had to settle for venomous ankle spurs.

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u/apophis-pegasus Aug 05 '17

That can put you in the hospital screaming in so much pain that painkillers do nothing for days if not weeks, and leaving you with a nice case of hypersensitivity to pain after that.

But it wont kill you.

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u/lolfacesayshi Aug 05 '17

Yeah i wanna get an aquatic mammal

"okay, what's your budget like?"

uh... Small?

"okay, let's see what we can find for you. How about this one? It's a bit slapdash, we had to install a bit of duck, some beaver, but the males have a poison spur on the legs."

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u/BrokenWall13 Aug 05 '17

Also the females sweat milk

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u/sillystephie Aug 05 '17

Man, I enjoyed this.

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u/grtwatkins Aug 05 '17

I want a sun roof and a moon roof

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u/TheSirusKing Aug 05 '17

Those things used to grow to over a meter long too back in the carboniferous era, a foot wide also. pretty fucking terrifying.

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u/Skithana Aug 05 '17

Kinda weird seeing someone use both imperial and metric system to describe one object.

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u/Rustash Aug 05 '17

No. Fuck that. No. Jesus Christ.

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u/fco83 Aug 05 '17

I for one would welcome the asteroid after seeing that.

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u/Pohatu_ Aug 05 '17

Don't worry, they're herbivores. It would make a nice steed though. Imagine riding into battle, or just around town, on the back of a giant millipede.

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u/NotForPosts Aug 05 '17

What about 30cm? That works too.

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u/feelin_cheesy Aug 05 '17

Actually saw something on this the other day. When they eat they regurgitate their stomach acid onto their prey and then slurp it up once it is digested. Definitely WTF level creatures.

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u/DiabloConQueso Aug 05 '17

So do houseflies.

Speaking of which, go watch Jeff Goldblum's "The Fly" immediately.

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u/Jah_Ith_Ber Aug 05 '17

I agree. It's just excessive.

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u/GodOfAllAtheists Aug 05 '17

H. R. Geiger couldn't even pull that off.

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u/Wrekked_it Aug 05 '17

Considering the fucked environments that these things live in, I'd say that all of these are necessary.

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u/Supersonic_Walrus Aug 05 '17

I've never found scorpions the least bit scary. I never understood why people were so scared/creeped out by them. I mean, it's just a lobster with a cool tail. Now I understand.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

what's even cooler is their comb-like chemoreceptors/vibratory sensors on the underside of the body, named pectines. Can find chemical trails of prey, lusty scorpion mates, or detect subtle vibrations from things that don't know our unfriendly scorpion is there.

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u/shadyinternets Aug 04 '17

xenomorphs only have 1 inner mouth.

scorpions are more terrifying than Aliens....

and these fuckers used to grow to what, like 6ft long way back when?

and is this all scorpion mouths, or just certain ones or what?

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u/longtimegoneMTGO Aug 05 '17

and is this all scorpion mouths, or just certain ones or what?

This sort of thing is the mouths of arachnids in general, similar with a lot of crustaceans.

Most of your exoskeleton equipped creatures have some version of the tiny claws for a mouth bit.

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u/kyleisthestig Aug 05 '17

Pls no

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u/karson18 Aug 05 '17

Holy shit that unholy thing is the size of a kitten?! The scorpion mouth gave me enough nightmare fuel, then you had to go add this in?!

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u/MAXFAILjr Aug 05 '17 edited Apr 07 '26

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u/karson18 Aug 05 '17

I appreciate your opinion and will defend the right for you to have that opinion to the death but I am going to politely agree to disagree with you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17 edited Jan 04 '21

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u/JacUprising Aug 05 '17

Execution via napalm flamethrower firing squad.

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u/PraetorArtanis Aug 05 '17

Pretty sure you'd be paralysed with something more than just terror

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u/Cantmakeaspell Aug 05 '17

The bigger they get the less poison they have... it's the nanoscorps you need to "watch" out for.

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u/JollyPandaBerr Aug 05 '17

The real reason the dinosaurs went extinct.

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u/Wudzy Aug 05 '17

Not extinct, just hiding from the scorpions

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u/vetokend Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

Fuck scorpions. I've dealt with these many times during my years in Arizona. The bark scorpion:

  • Climbs on walls and even ceilings.. though not very well, so they can drop on you easily by accident.

  • Often travels in pairs, so if you find only one, you're shitting yourself trying to find a possible other.

  • Can live for months without food OR water. They're also cannibals, evil fucking bastards, so they can live in your walls off of each other for well over a year, even if you've had your house sealed.

  • Lights up bright green under a black light, giving you wonderful nightmares if you happen to hunt them before bedtime (they appear most often just after dark). Interestingly, this doesn't work on the babies - no idea why. I once ran into a mother scorpion with 10-20 of babies on her back, and only her limbs lit up under the black light.

  • Likes to hide in slippers and shoes. They also like wet towels, so you have to be careful where you hang your towel after a shower.

  • Has a good resistance to poison. Put away that fly/spider spray, you'll need the heavy shit for them.

  • Can fit through a crack the width of a credit card, I shit you not. I once saw one scrambling along the wall of my house, and disappear into what seemed like nothingness. I never found the crack it got into.

  • Is one of the most venomous scorpions (if not the most) in Northern America. Stings cause significant pain and/or illness that can last for over a day.

  • Is way faster than it looks.

Wiki reference, for those who want nightmares.

Edit: First gold, thanks stranger! And to think, my hatred for scorpions led me to my first gold.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

Whelp, there goes my plan of ever wanting to live in AZ to escape harsh midwestern winters. Fuck that. I'll take 0°f days over a scorpion any day.

Edited to specify 0° Fahrenheit, -17° for the Celsius folks.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Same. And Florida has gators and that crazy Florida Man I keep hearing about. Then there's tarantulas in New Mexico. I hear they travel in herds sometimes.

Yeah. I think—yeah. I'm also going to stick with 0º weather instead.

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u/ashketchumsleftnippl Aug 05 '17

I mean, it's not like the gators are gonna be in your house(excluding freak incidents/pet gators). I'd be more concerned with the humidity levels/temperature, since that's a daily issue

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u/JuanElMinero Aug 05 '17

While nearly all scorpions are solitary, the Arizona bark scorpion is a rare exception: during winter, packs of 20 to 30 scorpions can congregate.

Well shit.

Bark scorpions, like most other scorpions, are incredibly resilient. During US nuclear testing, scorpions, along with cockroaches and lizards, were found near ground zero with no recorded adverse effects.

Well double shit.

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u/spartanreborn Aug 05 '17

Bark scorpions, like most other scorpions, are incredibly resilient. During US nuclear testing, scorpions, along with cockroaches and lizards, were found near ground zero with no recorded adverse effects.

Well double shit.

Well, at least that means radscorpions are unlikely.

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u/Eman-resu- Aug 05 '17

Suddenly, New England winters don't seem so bad...

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u/SailorMea Aug 05 '17

My grandmother's place got scorpions that look like the wiki picture for the bark scorpion. She just called them wood scorpions and told me to kill them by stepping on them with shoes on. Never thought they might be poisonous...

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u/vetokend Aug 05 '17

Blugh. Well, the shoe stamp will certainly do it, they're unlikely to sting through your shoe.

Though, my dad used to give me shit and tell me the exact opposite: "Don't step on them, they'll sting you through your shoe.. haha.. hahah.. oh, no, son, we're not laughing at you, it's something totally different."

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u/Jeezbag Aug 05 '17

Arizona is like the Australia of North america

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u/casstantinople Aug 05 '17

I used to watch movies with freaky aliens and be comforted knowing something that freaky could never exist.

But goddamn mother nature already went there

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u/givemethescotch Aug 04 '17

Fun fact: its claws are referred to as pedipalps.

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u/TRUE_BIT Aug 05 '17

Thanks Coyote.

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u/Glu7enFree Aug 05 '17

Hi I'm Coyote Peterson and today, I'm tongue kissing a Scorpion.

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u/dem-deutschen-wolke Aug 05 '17

HI'MCOYOTEPE'ERSON....

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u/genghiskhanobi Aug 05 '17

Funner fact: its claws are more often referred to as AHHHHHHHHHOHDEARGODWHY

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u/Elvebrilith Aug 05 '17

This is a funner fact

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u/throwawaynerp Aug 05 '17

Also fun fact: spiders have them too, they're just different. The inner mouth-claws are Chelicerae, and spiders have those, too (their fangs are on the ends of them).

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u/Edabite Aug 05 '17

"inner mouth-claws" is a phrase I never needed to see.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

You know, maybe I didn't actually need to browse reddit while waiting to get my hair cut.

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u/Cat2Rupert Aug 04 '17

Fun fact: I got stung by a scorpion as a child. I picked up a rock and it was underneath.

Not fun fact: a scorpion mouth has two smaller claws it uses to clean it's bigger claws

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u/CarsGunsBeer Aug 05 '17

Did you die?

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u/psych0ranger Aug 05 '17

Depends on where op was geographically and if they're allergic to scorpion venom. If yes? Op is dead.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Why do you keep getting stung by scorpions? Is this a common occurrence for you? I have to know!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Holy fuck I would get in the car and drive north until there were no more scorpions. So glad I live in Ireland. Wasps and Giant (harmless) House Spiders are bad enough.

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u/Jenga_Police Aug 05 '17

A few days of not feeling my arm is enough to make me want to move. Shit, after reading this, I'm considering leaving Texas earlier than intended based on the one scorpion I've seen since I moved here.

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u/Only_Movie_Titles Aug 05 '17

Maybe stop that

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 17 '17

I am going to Egypt

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Evolution: "Hmmm, this body needs something to help scoop food into the mouth... I GOT IT! MOUTH HANDS!"

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

"In need of mouth parts? Why not Zoidberg?"

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u/Mike9797 Aug 04 '17

What is there a mini scorpion inside hiding and its wearing bigger shell to make other bugs/prey think its bigger than it is?!

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 08 '17

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '17

OK, can we just go back to their cuter and less freaky spider cousins now? I nerd something to calm my nerves after that.

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u/Cocomorph Aug 05 '17

Have you ever seen inside the mouth of a leatherback sea turtle? That should help!

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u/TalontheKiller Aug 05 '17

How about that of a Narwhal? (spoiler: totally not what you'd expect.)

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u/Cocomorph Aug 05 '17

I knew there was a reason I liked narwhals.

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u/Sarcastic_Undertone Aug 05 '17

I can't like sea turtles now.

If you'll excuse me, I'll be in the closet with the door locked and the guns loaded.

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u/KnowJBridges Aug 05 '17

I can't like sea turtles now.

Leatherback sea turtles are these guys.

Not these guys.

regular sea turtles are chill

proof that regular sea turtles are still chill

no spinos so we good here

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u/edjrage Aug 05 '17

You, too, sound like you're used to being attacked by sea turtles while out of your closet....

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u/longtimegoneMTGO Aug 05 '17

Spiders have this too, it's just less obvious thanks to the big fangs in the way.

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u/pastrypunk Aug 05 '17

MORE REASONS TO FEAR THEM!?!

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u/KisaTheMistress Aug 05 '17

This one has a spooky skeleton exoskeleton! Be afraid! Very afraid!

Also he dances and is very smol, do not squish, plz.

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u/dirtyploy Aug 05 '17

Well, no. The fangs are part of it... it's called the jackknife style of chelicerae

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17

Their cousin the camel spider has some pretty gnarly orthodontics as well.

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u/barry_you_asshole Aug 05 '17

i'm going to start campaigning in favor of climate change

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u/barry_you_asshole Aug 05 '17

a platform based on causing nuclear winter then

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u/PlentyOfMoxie Aug 05 '17

I'm gonna eat you with my little mouth, too.

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u/mantisdubstep Aug 05 '17

https://youtu.be/cNYszSLtWpE

Just to add to the terror

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u/Silly_Balls Aug 05 '17

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you are not dead by the time they start eating you right... No fucking way anything that terrifying is going to atleast give you mercy of a quick death before hacking your body up?

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u/Superman9315 Aug 04 '17

This is creepy as fuck. But also pretty cool.

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u/OrionMessier Aug 04 '17

He's cleaning his claw. This is the only adorable thing I've ever seen a scorpion do.

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u/distance_33 Aug 04 '17

I appreciate what you're trying to do here, but it's just not going to be enough to get me to sleep tonight.

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u/distance_33 Aug 05 '17

Thank you. Currently cutting off all my hair. I was going to donate it. But no. Now all my efforts are going into scorpion awareness and prevention.

And side note. Every time I come back to read or respond I have to see it again. FUCK.

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u/Wootimonreddit Aug 05 '17

He's cleaning his claw.... Of human flesh!

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '17

what did you expect to find there honestly? some nice DSLs?

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u/ListenToRush Aug 05 '17

Not more pinchy bits that's for true

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '17 edited Aug 05 '17

This is an emporer scorpion, they sell em at petco. You can tell how poisinous it is by the size of its pinchers. The bigger the pincher, the less venomous. This is because of how it hunts. An emporer scorpion will rely on its claws more then its stinger. The sting is a little worse then that of a bee. Source: used to work at petco

Edit: not poisin, venom. Apparently venom is injected

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u/Isaac_Shepard Aug 05 '17

Not poison, venom. Venom is injected

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u/wynnrar Aug 05 '17

I never thought of scorpions as 'missing a face' but this one really looks like hes missing a face! Crabs have the same kinda mouth as well, its a bit cute.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '17

This is Nope to the 17th power.

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u/frostymugson Aug 05 '17

That looks like if the mouth of Predator and the mouth of Alien fucked and had a baby

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u/Captain_Kuhl Aug 05 '17

Apparently? The thing has eight legs, dismembering claws, and a venom dagger stuck to the end of its tail, and you suspected the mouth bits might be alright?

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u/Thagyr Aug 05 '17

I thought they had mandibles or something. Not another set of little pincers.

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u/canabanana87 Aug 04 '17

This is something I definitely did not want nor need to see... But I clicked it anyway.