"It may be a Republican-leaning district, but I'll still declare it to be mine," says this Democrat about the area he represents, shaped like a scorpion rampant.Mr Scott, from Virginia's 3rd congressional district, is among a handful of black and Latino members of the House of Representatives whose futures remain uncertain because of legal challenges to their districts by conservatives.
Each sample was exposed to the lab-generated sandstorm for five minutes and then weighed to find out how badly it had been eroded.The upshot was that the pattern most resembling scorpion armour with grooves that were 2mm apart, 5mm wide and 4mm high proved best able to withstand the assault.
Mr Fahmy and Mr Muhammad, Mr Greste's producers, are accused of being members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and are being held at the Scorpion prison on Cairo's outskirts, where many inmates are convicted terrorists.
Equally he had to find ways of salvaging, before the Soviets did, anything America had lost there such as, in 1968, the submarine Scorpion, and in 1966 a hydrogen bomb knocked out of a B52 during mid-air refuelling.The depths of the sea were the last frontier of the cold war.
Simon Braddy of the University of Bristol, in England, and his colleagues have found the fossilised claw of a giant sea scorpion.
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Why, asks the drowning frog of the drowning scorpion?
Yet when the sand whips by at speeds that would strip paint away from steel, the scorpion is able to scurry off without apparent damage.
The frog replies that the scorpion might sting and kill him.
The frog agrees, and the scorpion stings him midstream.
That does not mean, however, that a zoologist would mistake a 200m-year-old turtle or a 400m-year-old scorpion for any species now alive.What is remarkable about the new find is that it is so similar to modern animals that it can be assigned to an existing genus the lowest level of Linnaean classification above a species rather than just to some higher taxonomic group.
