>live in dry habitats
>can still hold their breath for almost an entire week

Why? Looks like a totally useless perk to have.

They don't all live in dry habitats. I'm from a seaside town on a peninsula itself in a peninsula country. We've got plenty of scorpions.

>>5003699 (OP)
can you tell me where the O2 is produced underground, especially when CO2 is heavier than O2

>>5003710
You are from Mexico?

>>5003979
Naples, Italy. There are even scorpions in Switzerland and it must certainly is not dry nor even warm up there.

>>5003995
>>5003979
Oh, and Mexico isn't a peninsular country, you big silly.

>>5003699 (OP)
as far as I know, they can survive for months without food. I guess they have slow or do slower metabolic rate.
also, they are thought to have been aquatic species 4 billion years ago or like that.

>>5003997
to be fair even in mexico they often forget that there's a chain of small countries connecting them to the sudacas

>>5003699 (OP)
also I'm curious if someone really investigated if book lungs do not work like book gills, from which the book lungs were developed.
I mean the possibility of the book lungs to take oxygen in from the water.

>>5003699 (OP)
There's a rainy season in Arizona and there can be flash floods. Scorpions don't have FEMA to help evacuate them from their burrows.

>>5003995
What the fuck, it's real. A. alpha.

>>5003995
where do you find them? I've never seen any in the city

>>5005862
>in the city
Not really found in the city proper these days but they're pretty common in the rest of the province of Naples. The only part of town I could imagine finding them now is farther up, like Posillipo but when I was a kid, we would visit my mum's friends in Agnano and occasionally find a scorpion in the grass. This was in the 80s and 90s when it was still a somewhat undeveloped part of town. Nowadays, most we get in the city proper are those weird, super tiny ones. I'm not even sure they're actually scorpions. But go out into the greenery and you'll see a scorpion eventually. Just remember that they're reclusive and don't want to be found but they're there if you look for them.

>>5005975
I've spent most of my childhood in the northern part of the city with a lot of land and trees, and I regularly visit all the parks of the city but have never seen a scorpion there, posillipo, camaldoli, agnano, capodimonte, nope.
I've seen frogs and snakes, and heard foxes, but never seen a scorpion. I'll pay more attention in the future

>>5005862
in my boots lmao

>>5004076
As if they were any better lmao.

>>5006336
They are hidden during the day, just flip all the rocks you find or wait until night and search for them with an UV black light.

>>5007844
which animals glow under UV black light other than scorpions and platypuses?

>>5008313
Those weird Indian squirrels that are the size of a rabbit. They glow pink

>>5003699 (OP)
>Looks like a totally useless perk to have.
Evolution doesn't have to make traits the just barely fit an immediate constraint just so you don't notice it and comment on it.