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Welcome to The Scorpion Files!

The intention of this site is to provide information about scorpions to both scientists and others seeking information about these interesting arachnids. The information in this site is as far as possible based on scientific data, but the presentation has a popular science profile to make it available to all types of information seekers.

Number of species in the world: 2752

Editor:
Jan Ove Rein, M.Sc.

The Scorpion Files Newsblog keeps you updated!

A special thanks to Kari McWest, M.Sc. for a lot of help during the development of The Scorpion Files!

A review of The Scorpion Files in the journal Science!


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