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Ferocious pack-hunting pseudoscorpions believe in sharing fairly

By Mary Bates

9 May 2018

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Pseudoscorpions are tiny but fierce

Everton Tizo-Pedroso

Tiny scorpion-like arachnids hunt in vicious packs to bring down large prey – before carefully sharing out the meat as fairly as possible.

look like miniature scorpions, complete with outsize pincers, but minus the stinger at the back end. At just a few millimeters long, they pose no danger to humans, but are formidable predators of small invertebrates. There are over 3,000 known species.

Most are solitary hunters, but is one of the few that are more sociable. Hailing from Central and South America, these pseudoscorpions

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