The tale of Pulmonoscorpius began with fossil hunters unearthing remarkable remains in Scottish coal deposits ... thick vegetation with ease. This giant scorpion was a master of its environment ...

Scorpions‘ ancestors first appeared around 450 million years ago. That’s as old as sharks, older than dinosaurs, and even ...

Asked to rank giant sea scorpions on a scale of one to terrifying, Russell Bicknell puts them at about an eight. "I suppose it depends how you define terrifying," Bicknell, a paleobiologist at the ...

The immense fossilised claw of a 2.5m-long (8ft) sea scorpion has been described by European researchers. The 390-million-year-old specimen was found in a German quarry, the journal Biology Letters ...