Scorpion Mother Carrying Babies on Her Back
A scorpion can have as many as 100 babies in a single brood. They are born alive, rather than hatched from eggs like other insects. At birth, the exoskeleton, or outside shell of the baby scorpion is very soft. They crawl up onto their mother's' backs for 10 to 20 days until their exoskeleton becomes stiff and hard. Then they crawl off and begin life on their own.