# Scary Big Scorpion **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278 "2007-11-21T02:46:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/1 "2007-11-21T02:46:53Z")
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. > **[BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Giant sea scorpion claw unearthed](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7104421.stm)** > > A monster creepy-crawly: the immense fossilised claw of a 2.5m-long sea scorpion is described by scientists. > [@](#): > > … 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. > … 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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Testy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@Testy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Testy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/2 "2007-11-21T06:50:58Z")
**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 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/3 "2007-11-21T08:35:14Z")
It’s just a big lobster. Sort of. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/4 "2007-11-21T09:19:59Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/5 "2007-11-21T09:41:49Z")
In Soviet Paleozoic, 8 foot scary lobster boils YOU! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/6 "2007-11-21T10:11:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/7 "2007-11-21T10:17:23Z")
We’re going to need a bigger boot. ---
**Author:** ![Aholibah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aholibah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aholibah)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/8 "2007-11-21T14:24:31Z")
I, for one, welcome our new giant scorpion ov… oh, you know. ---
**Author:** ![Kuboydal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/9 "2007-11-21T15:46:23Z")
Wait, are you saying the Scorpions are coming back?! _Here I am, rock you like a hurricane…_ ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/10 "2007-11-21T18:30:56Z")
Ohhh, just like Clash of the Titans! Where is Harry Hamlin when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/11 "2007-11-21T22:12:58Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] It’s just a big lobster. Sort of. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/12 "2007-11-21T22:19:50Z")
All scorpions everywhere should die and become fossils. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-big-scorpion/427278/13 "2007-11-21T23:04:20Z")
All scorpions should be dead 390 million years.