Glow-in-the-dark scorpions: Why do they do it?
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Scorpions are already outfitted with armor, pinchers and painful and poisonous stingers, so one has to wonder: Is glowing in the dark really necessary? Actually, arachnologists have spent untold hours trying to answer that very question.
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