Perhaps Australia, with infamous snakes like the inland taipan (Oxyuranus microlepidotus), or maybe Brazil, home to dreaded creatures like the yellow scorpion (Tityus serrulatus). Europe ...

Forget snakes, it's scorpions Brazilians most need to worry about. The arachnids -- feared for the toxic stinger poised atop their tails -- are proliferating thanks to urbanization and warming ...