Tag: scorpions
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World’s Oldest Scorpions May Have Moved From Sea to Land 437 Million Years Ago
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about some very old scorpions. Scientific Reports has a paper describing some scorpions that lived about 437 million years ago, during the Silurian Period. These animals, called Parioscorpio venator, lived in what is now modern day Wisconsin. Their fossils were discovered back in the 1980s. When they were alive, Wisconsin…
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PBS Eons: When Giant Scorpions Swarmed the Seas
PBS Eons has an awesome video about Sea Scorpions. Sea scorpions thrived for 200 million years, coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Over time, they developed a number of adaptations–from crushing claws to flattened tails for swimming. And some of them adapted by getting so big that they still hold the…
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Spider-like Creature With a Scorpion’s Tail Found Trapped in Amber
The NY Times has an article about an exciting new spider-like fossil discovered in amber. Chimerarchne yingi lived during the Cretaceous Period more than 100 million years ago in what is now Southeast Asia. It’s spider-like, because it’s not quite a spider. It have 8 legs, fangs, and a whip like tail. It was only…
