There are very few scorpions in the world today. This scorpion is near the edge with one pincer easily seen and the curled stinger near the body. It's body is small, maybe a bit over 1/4 of an inch is length. This is a nice piece of amber.
Before mating, the male and female engage their pincers and move back and forth as if dancing. When the male drops its sperm capsule, the female picks it up and keeps it for fertilization. The juvenile specimens are often carried on the back of the mothers until they become mature.
This is amber from Mexico, Chiapas amber, Simojovel mines.
Most often, the creatures trapped in the resin are tiny bugs or floral fragments, but an example such as this is considerably rarer. Suspended in the side of this clear, beautifully shaped amber nugget is a scorpion, every detail of its arthropod anatomy is visible, its tail is curved with the vicious barb curved around, its tiny jointed legs bent in towards its body, and one of its larger claw legs extended to the side as though in a final despairing gesture as the sticky tree sap covered its helpless body.