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 ...

SAO PAULO - 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 urbanisation ...