Scorpions: The Lobsters of the Desert With Awful Taste You’ve heard of surf & turf… but what about sting & turf? Believe it or not, scorpions and lobsters are distant cousins. They both wear tough exoskeletons, have creepy claws, and strut around like they own... You are going to the garage at night to fetch that box of photographs of you and your family, and then you make that first step across the threshold you step on a scorpion or scorpions! Before your foot has landed on it the scorpion drove it’s stinger into you!... 