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 ...

LANDER - You say camel spider, I say wind scorpion - let's call the whole thing off. It turns out camel spiders are native to the American West - we just don't call them camel spiders. And they don't ...

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 ...

Camel spiders aren’t venomous and don’t really go after humans, but that have been known to chase after them (top speed 10 mph), which is pretty scary. Here's a tidbit from National Geographic: These ...

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, ...