A scorpion's body is not wide but long. The back of the body is called the abdomen and the front of the body is called the cephalothoraxes. The abdomen includes the legs and tail. The cephalothorax includes the head chest, and palps. The palps are a scorpion's pinchers.
Scorpions have eight legs, two palps, one stinger, and the eyes depend on species.
Scorpions come all different sizes. They mostly range from one to eight inches long. Scientists believe that scorpions used to be more than tree feet long. A museum used to have a tree foot model of a scorpion based on a fossil that is thought to be a scorpion. Some scorpion stings only hurt like a bee sting.