A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. At about one meter long, the roughly 415-million-year-old Praearcturus gig ...
About 415 million years ago, the floodplains of what’s now England and Wales were haunted by a nightmarish predator: a baseball bat-size scorpion, armed with pincers the size of table knives. That’s ...
An artist's impression of Praearcturus gigas. (Franz Anthony) If you were wandering around Earth's floodplains 415 million years ago, you wouldn't have come across any other mammals – but you would ...
The Pakistani yellow scorpion uses its venom to incapacitate prey. But new research shows that it might also be used to cure a range of maladies, even cancer. Part of scorpions’ evolutionary success ...