A newly described species of sea scorpion measures over 1.5 metres long and lived 460 million years ago. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...

Specimens of what appear to be the largest eurypterid species found in Australia could shed light on the sudden extinction of the massive arthropods. By Rebecca Dzombak Most modern scorpions would fit ...

Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Researchers led by Profs. ZHANG Haichun, WANG Bo, ZHANG ...

Samuel J. Ciurca, curatorial affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, has been named the winner of the Harrell L. Strimple Award from the Paleontological Society. The award recognizes ...

Researchers have discovered the fossil of a bizarre and previously unknown species of ‘sea scorpion’, which measured over 1.5 metres long, and may have been the Earth’s dominant large predator 460 ...

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