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) scare off trails". The Navy court of inquiry official statement was that there was not another ship within 200 miles of "Scorpion" at the time of the sinking. Adding to the body of evidence against a Soviet torpedo-attack theory, U.S. Navy submarine Captain Robert LaGassa has flatly stated that "no Soviet Submarine in 1968 could detect, track, approach and attack any Skipjack or later class U.S. submarine". The results of the U.S. Navy's various investigations into the loss of "Scorpion" are inconclusive. While the court of inquiry never endorsed Dr. Craven's torpedo theory regarding the loss of "Scorpion", its "findings