Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160923220030/@comment-25396609-20160925221915

You need WAY more anatomical changes for a scorpion tail than for a monkey tail. Humans are already primates, we have all of the nevesarry structures to supper tails. Hell, it is even possible for humans to be born with what qualifies as a tail (albeit a vestigial one).

A scorpion tail, on the other hand, is vastly different. for one thing humans don't have an exoskeleton, meaning they would not connect in the same way as they would for a scorpion, and it cannot be anchored to existing skeletal structures like a monkey or cat tail.

For two, all scorpions in fact do have venomous stingers. it is their primary way of hunting and defending themselves. While not all scorpions have a venom which can kill a human (and many in fact have a paralytic rather than lethal sting) they all have it.

And finally, the muscular functions in a scorpion tail are vastly different than the muscular structure in the human body, they move using similar principles but applied in different ways.