Jun 11th, 2008 · The unit known as the Scorpions has broken up drug rings, apprehended diamond smugglers and investigated government corruption. But after fingering some of South Africa's most powerful people, the unit's days may be numbered.
Nov 21st, 2007 · New fossil evidence suggests that sea scorpions more than 8-feet long once roamed the oceans, eating smaller fish and each other. Scientists call the sea scorpions eurypterids. The giant, carnivorous sea scorpions date to the Paleozoic Era.
Dec 3rd, 2005 · New evidence contradicts a British team's claim to have found 40,000-year-old human footprints in a quarry last year. But there is less debate about fossil tracks left by an enormous water scorpion.
Oct 26th, 2005 · As a former counterterrorism official in the Clinton and Bush administrations, Richard A. Clarke often had to imagine worst-case scenarios. His first novel -- a thriller -- does just that: set five years in the future, it envisions the United States on the verge of another war in the Middle East.