A five-year-old girl died after she was stung by a scorpion while playing with her friends in a front garden. Victim Agata Sofia Fernandes da Silva was running into her…
A five-year-old girl stung by a scorpion waited an hour for emergency treatment until medics confessed they had run out of the serum that would have saved her. Victim Jamily…
A terrified plane passenger was rushed to hospital in agony after being stung by a scorpion as it crawled over her on a flight in India. The Air India passenger…
A four-year-old boy who had been stung by a scorpion died after ER medics treated him for pneumonia instead of lethal venom, a hospital inquiry has revealed. Victim Miguel Grijota…
A seven-year-old boy died after he suffered seven heart attacks when he was stung by a one of the most toxic scorpions in South America. Luiz Miguel Furtado Barbosa from…
Researchers have shown that Indiana Jones was right all along - the smaller the scorpion, the deadlier its sting. Researchers from the National University of Ireland (NUI), Galway have shown…
This adorable one-year-old girl has tragically died after she was stung by a scorpion. The venomous arachnid stung little Lara Vitoria Carvalho de Oliveira at her home in the neighbourhood…
Wildlife detectives have rescued an astonishing haul of rare squirrels from animal traffickers in Iran. Police confiscated 32 of the nut-loving animals after setting up an elaborate sting posing as…
A young Lebanese girl has died from a scorpion sting amid an economic crisis in the country that has led to massive medical shortages and exorbitant prices on the black…
These deadly Portuguese man-of-war have been washing up in large numbers on a Brazilian beach. Hundreds of the marine animals have been spotted on a beach in the municipality of…