Celyn
November 21, 2007, 2:46am
1
Well, admittedly it’s pretty well dead, but it was the wrong thing to read about just before heading towards bed and a happy sleep.
… 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 Germany quarry, the journal Biology Letters reports.
The creature, which has been named Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, would have paddled in a river or swamp.
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So if anyone needs anything to have nightmares about … here you go.
No, don’t thank me.
Bah. An hour ago I thought a little tiny kitchen beetle was the worst thing of the day.
Testy
November 21, 2007, 6:50am
2
Celyn
Of even more use for nightmare generating is the casual mention that there is still a scorpion running around somewhere that is a foot long.
Regards
Testy
It’s just a big lobster. Sort of.
It’s a good job you’re from the kingdom of butter mangetout, because for a lobster that size, you’re gonna need all of it!
In Soviet Paleozoic, 8 foot scary lobster boils YOU!
Kyla
November 21, 2007, 10:11am
6
Freakin’ AWESOME. Thanks for the link!
This is the upside of global warming, you know. Hotter weather = bigger animals. Too bad I won’t be around anymore by the time our new megafauna overlords evolve.
We’re going to need a bigger boot.
I, for one, welcome our new giant scorpion ov… oh, you know.
Wait, are you saying the Scorpions are coming back?!
Here I am, rock you like a hurricane…
Zebra
November 21, 2007, 6:30pm
10
Ohhh, just like Clash of the Titans! Where is Harry Hamlin when you need him?
Celyn
November 21, 2007, 10:12pm
11
Hmmm, I don’t think I would even like a lobster wandering around the house.
Still, brave today - just got rid of a tiny wee beetle thing. That’s about as much fauna as I want to cope with, ta. Perhaps I need a pet lizard, or a cat.
LouisB
November 21, 2007, 10:19pm
12
All scorpions everywhere should die and become fossils.
Zebra
November 21, 2007, 11:04pm
13
All scorpions should be dead 390 million years.