They look like a mix between a scorpion and a spider, spray acid to protect themselves and eat cockroaches for dinner — and now they've been spotted in Texas. A vinegaroon, an arachnid also known as a ...

Vinegaroons spray acetic acid—the substance that gives vinegar its pungent scent—from their tails. Laura Gooch via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 In the West Texas desert, summer rains usually cause ...

Everything's bigger in Texas, even the state's creepy crawly arachnids. Big Bend National Park is warning visitors about the vinegaroons. If you do not know what a vinegaroon is, WOAI described them ...

Visitors to Big Bend National Park in far West Texas are on high alert after one of the parks many insect inhabitants made it’s viral internet debut earlier this month. On July 14, staff members at ...

Big Bend National Park posted a photo of a small but nightmarish creature called a vinegaroon, also known as a whip scorpion, on social media. The arachnid is about 3 inches long and when threatened ...

The Big Bend National Park says summer rain is what brings Vinegaroons out of their burrows. They're about three inches long and the park says they're relatively harmless. Unless, you happen to annoy ...

We highly recommend watching where you step the next time you visit Big Bend National Park. The Internet is in a frenzy after the National Park Service shared a photo of a fearsome-looking bug known ...

What animal sprays acid that reeks of vinegar from its rear end? A vinegaroon, of course. The vinegaroon – also known as a whip scorpion – looks like a Frankenstein creation of monster body parts. But ...

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