Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona's diverse wildlife includes some of the most painful and poisonous creatures found in the desert. From the excruciating ...

The Arizona bark scorpion may look small and harmless, but it carries one of the most powerful venoms of any arachnid in North America. Its sting delivers a potent neurotoxin that disrupts the nervous ...

PHOENIX — It's not yet peak scorpion season, but already Arizonans are getting stung by the little critters. A wet January and a hot February mean the scorpions are out earlier than usual this year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forget about complaining over gnats and mosquitoes — Arizona is home to some of the most venomous creatures on the planet. If you ...

A study of Tucson children who were stung by bark scorpions and treated with the Mexican-made Anascorp is the subject of an article that will come out in the New England Journal of Medicine today. The ...

An experimental drug tested on Tucson children who suffered potentially fatal scorpion stings appears ready for federal approval, University of Arizona scientists say. The drug — an antivenin known as ...

Arizona's diverse wildlife includes some of the most painful and poisonous creatures found in the desert. From the excruciating sting of the tarantula hawk wasp to the potentially life-threatening ...