Why do scorpions glow in the dark?

Friday, May 13, 2011 - 17:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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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