So the other day I was helping one of my kids with something – doing something related to scorpions.
I learned a lot about scorpions. One interesting thing I learned was when I was looking at a diagram of the different body parts of the scorpion. A scorpion, of course, has that little stinger on the end of his tail, called a telson, don’t you all feel smarter now for knowing that? Anyway, right above the stinger, there’s a little pointer and the word anus.
A scorpion has what’s called an exoskeleton – man, this is starting to sound like science class, isn’t it? Bear with me a minute…an exoskeleton is a fancy word for a shell. So that tail and stinger, and ANUS of his is hanging there right above his head, all the time. All the time! No wonder why they’re running around trying to poke things with that stinger all the time. I’d be a little annoyed at having my anus right above my head, too.
