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Have you ever wondered about that seen in Harry Potter where A creature jumps on Ron’s head and said it’s just a movie and creature like this don’t exist. Well they do and it’s call a tailless whip scorpion.


These tailless scorpions range from 5 to 70 centimeteres in legspan. Their bodies are broad and flattened, with a solid carapace and a segmented abdomen.

Most species have eight eyes; a pair of median eyes at the front of the carapace above the chelicerae and 2 smaller clusters of three eyes each further back on each side.

They have raptorial pedipalps modified for grabbing and retaining prey, much like those of a mantis recent work suggests that the pedipalps display sexual dimorphism in their size and shape.
The first pair of legs act as sensory organs and are not used for walking. The sensory legs are very thin and elongated.

They have numerous sensory receptors, and can extend several times the length of body


They have eight legs, but will only use six for walking, often like a crab walking in a sideways fashion. The front pair of legs are modified for use as antennae-like feelers, with many fine segments giving the appearance of a "whip". When a suitable prey is located with the antenniform legs, it seizes its victim with large spines on the grasping pedipalps, impaling and immobilizing the prey. This is typically done while climbing the side of a vertical surface and looking downward at their prey.

Pincer-like chelicerae then work to grind and chew the prey prior to ingestion. The tailless whip scorpion may go for over a month in which no food is eaten. Due to the lack of venom the tailless whip scorpion is very nervous in temperament, retreating away if any dangerous threat is sensed by the animal.

Courtship involves the male depositing stalked spermatophores, which have one or more sperm masses at the tip, onto the ground, and using his pedipalps to guide the female over them.

She gathers the sperm and lays fertilized eggs into a sac carried under the abdomen. When the young hatch, they climb up onto the mother's back; any which fall off before their first molt will not survive.
Some species of tailless whip scorpions suggests that mothers communicate with their young with her antenniform front legs, and the offspring reciprocate both with their mother and siblings.

The ultimate function of this social behavior remains unknown.
holding territories that they defend from other individuals.
They diet mostly consists of arthropod prey, but these opportunistic predators have also been observed feeding on vertebrates.

They generally do not feed before, during, and after molting and will molt several times during its life.
Molting is done from hanging from the underside of a horizontal surface in order to use gravity to assist in separating the old exoskeleton from the animal.

They are found mostly under your bed waiting for you to fall asleep!

Just kidding!

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