Note: In the book of Revelation strange and terrifying creatures suddenly come out of the earth and attack humans.And one of them is a type of locust-scorpion!  Rev 9:3 And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. Other creatures: Rev 13:11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. Rev 9:14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

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Israeli researchers discover blind scorpion species
June 1, 2006

JERUSALEM --  Israeli researchers announced on Wednesday that they had discovered several new terrestrial and aquatic species in a cave in the center of the country, including a blind scorpion.

"We found eight kinds of invertebrates unknown to science around 120 meters [400 feet] underground," Professor Amos Fromkin of Jerusalem's Hebrew University told a press conference.

"This a first-grade discovery for science," he added in front of a glass jars containing the new discoveries.

The largest of the animals was around five centimeters (two inches) and resembled a white scorpion. The rest could only be seen with the aid of microscopes.

All were discovered in a cave in the Rale region, close to Tel Aviv, during research into the ecosystems of aquifers.

"The fact that these species have been apparently living for millions of years in the caves without ever having been discovered is very rare," said Hanan Dimentman of the university's department of ecology.

"Their whole way of life is totally new to us, it's like a new world underground."

The discoveries have yet to be given a name but Dimentman said that they could be divided into categories of scorpions and bacteria.

"The blind scorpions that we discovered are predators and are distant cousins of other scorpions which have never been found before in the Middle East," he added.

Species of blind scorpions are known to live in South America but it is the first time that they have been discovered in the Middle East region.