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Whip Scorpion

Period: Cretaceous

Age: 125 million years

Region: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil

Whip scorpions are not poisonous but when they feel
threatened they can squirt a mixture of acetic acid and

octanoic acid from glands in the back of their ab-
domens further than 80 cm (over 2.5 feet). This sub-
stance serves as a weapon to deter enemies. Whip scor-
pions that possess the same features 125 million years
ago as those living today are one of the proofs that re-
fute evolution.

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