A 437-million-year old scorpion was the earliest known creature to venture from sea onto land, a new study has found, shedding new light on one of the earliest chapters in the planet’s evolutionary ...

In the prehistoric oceans, this was one bad bug. Scientists are marveling at the world’s oldest sea scorpion — the Pentecopterus, named after a Greek warship. Imagine a creature nearly 6 feet in ...

A team of researchers found a fossil of a sea scorpion that was about 3 feet. That's about the size of a dog – and not a chihuahua either. Mixopterids, the most remarkable of the eurypterid (sea ...

In the prehistoric oceans, this was one bad bug. Scientists are marveling at the world's oldest sea scorpion — the Pentecopterus, named after a Greek warship. Imagine a creature nearly 6 feet in ...

A new species of prehistoric scorpion may have been capable of leaving its marine habitat and venturing onto land, new research suggests. The findings indicate that Parioscorpio venator is the ...

Scientists studying fossils collected 35 years ago have identified them as the oldest-known scorpion species, a prehistoric animal from about 437 million years ago. The researchers found that the ...

Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction wiped out 95% of all organisms – we had the Paleozoic Era. During this age ...

If you could arrange for a time machine to whisk you back through the ages and deposit you somewhere in Michigan some 430 million years ago, you’d need to pack scuba gear — and nerves of steel. Back ...

In the prehistoric oceans, this was one bad bug. Scientists are marveling at the world’s oldest sea scorpion – the Pentecopterus, named after a Greek warship. Imagine a creature nearly 6 feet in ...

A team of researchers found a fossil of a sea scorpion that was about 3 feet. That's about the size of a dog – and not a chihuahua either. Mixopterids, the most remarkable of the eurypterid (sea ...

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