This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The fat-tailed scorpion, aka fattail scorpion, can be found in desert, arid, semi-arid, subtropical, tropical, and temperate regions of northern and western Africa as well as the Middle East & a portion of Asia. Generally speaking, smaller scorpions tend to be more venomous, but that doesn’t apply to these critters. […]

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