When you see things happen in slow motion, you notice things that you wouldn't notice, when watched in regular motion. That's what the YouTube channel Distort is all about; manipulating time to show us things that the naked eye might otherwise miss.
While the dudes that run the channel are typically doing harmless, everyday things like lighting matches, dropping breakable objects from high altitudes and shooting off silly string, it was a much more terrifying distortion that really caught our eye...
All in the name of science, host David Prager recently subjected himself to the sting of a scorpion, to show us viewers what such an attack looks like, in slow motion. A non-venomous Emperor scorpion was placed in way too close for comfort proximity to David's arm, and his co-host Mauricio Balvanera goaded the West African creature into stabbing him with its razor sharp stinger.
So, what does it look like, when a scorpion sinks its stinger into human flesh? Check out the video below, and see for yourself!
At the tail end of last year, scientists discovered a new species of scorpion in Turkey, which is quite a bit larger than most. Check it out!