The jaws’ surfaces have sharp, tooth-like denticles to hold and pierce into the prey, and each jaw can move in a vertical, chewing motion and a horizontal, back-and-forth, sawing motion.

Solpuga, also known as the camel spider, wind scorpion, or scorpion of the wind, is a terrifying predator with incredible ...

There are over 1,000 species within the order. Common names include sun spider, wind scorpion, Egyptian giant solpugid, and camel spider. These arachnids are neither spiders nor scorpions.

Camel spiders aren’t venomous and don’t really go after humans, but that have been known to chase after them (top speed 10 mph), which is pretty scary.

The camel spider can get big enough to feast on small rodents, birds, lizards and other insects; it also has the largest jaw size to body size ratio of any known animal, according to Hutton.

Bird, Prendini, and co-author Robert Wharton, a professor at Texas A&M University, studied the jaws of 188 camel spider species representing all solifuge families from historical collections at ...

Unlike the camel spiders in Iraq, which can be 6 inches long with powerful jaws, in Montana the native camel spider maxes out at about 2 inches long. "They aren't seeking to eat you.

Solifuge arachnids, also known as camel spiders or wind scorpions, are of keen interest to Kristie Reddick and Jessica Honaker, two Portland-based insect scientists who blog at The Bug Chicks ...

BREAKOUT Most powerful jaws in the West * Camel spiders, or wind scorpions as they're known here, have pound for pound the most powerful bite of any creature in the desert.

Recent Internet postings about the photo above of “camel spiders.” It reportedly was taken by a soldier stationed in Iraq. “A colleague sent me this photo of a mysterious desert insect ...

Camel spiders, non-venomous cousins of true spiders and scorpions, use powerful jaws to crush their prey. Published: ; Jan. 27, 2012, 7:47 p.m.