Talk:Death Stalker/@comment-162.197.96.15-20150626150926/@comment-24198837-20150906225107

I don't know about Chishio's point, but I know at least part of it is due to species size. Of course, there are outliers, but smaller scorpians generally need more potent venom to immobolize prey, while bigger scorpians can rely more on their pincers.

Even then, most of the smaller, more venomous scorpians inject far too little venom to seriously injure a human. If Slate  is to be believed, approximately 0.016% of scorpian species pose a threat to humans.