A man was surprised to find what appeared to be a mix between a spider and a scorpion at his home in Queen Creek, Arizona. Thomas Acosta came face to face with the creature, known as the camel spider, ...

Although an animal’s common name often helps describe its characteristics and/or relationship to other animals, common names can be misleading. One arthropod reported from the periphery of the Rolling ...

It's the stuff you'd see in your nightmares, and an Arizona man came face to face with it. Its common name is the camel spider, wind scorpion or sun spider; however, it's not a spider and it's also ...

Solifuge arachnids, also known as camel spiders or wind scorpions, are of keen interest to Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker, two Portland-based insect scientists who blog at The Bug Chicks.