Dinosaur Discovery on MSN
When rivers were ruled by giant sea scorpions
Long before dinosaurs, some rivers were anything but safe. Giant eurypterids, often called sea scorpions, thrived in prehistoric waterways. Some species grew longer than a human and dominated as apex ...
Dinosaur Discovery on MSN
How a long-lost river became one of prehistory’s deadliest places
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a prehistoric river system became home to some of the largest arthropods ever to exist. Fossils reveal massive sea scorpion-like predators moving through shallow ...
(NEW YORK) — If you think scorpions are scary now, wait until you get a look at their human-sized prehistoric cousins. The Pentecopterus, named after a Greek warship that resembles the outline of the ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The largest prehistoric sea scorpion, Eurypterids, was more than 7-feet long - and was almost 1,000 times the weight of the largest scorpion alive ...
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