Scorpion use in the pharmaceutical industry are collected from the wild in Pakistan. Farmers in the Thatta District are paid about US$100 for each 40 gram scorpion and 60 gram specimens are reported to fetch at least US$50,000. The trade is reported to be illegal but thriving. Fried scorpion is a traditional dish from Shandong, China. Scorpion Scorpions are predatory arachnids of the order Scorpiones. They have eight legs and are easily recognized by the pair of grasping pedipalps and the narrow, segmented tail, often carried in a characteristic forward curve over the back, ending with a venomous stinger. Scorpions range
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) dispatched for health reasons. Some U.S. ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) operated from the U.S. Naval base Rota. It is speculated that USS "Scorpion" provided noise cover for as they both departed to the Atlantic the first time. As well as Soviet intelligence trawlers, there were Soviet fast nuclear attack submarines attempting to detect and follow the U.S. submarines going out of Rota; in this case, two fast 32-knot Soviet hunter-killer subs. "Scorpion" was then detailed to observe Soviet naval activities in the Atlantic in the vicinity of the Azores. An Echo II-class submarine was operating with this Soviet task force,