Researchers have discovered that enormous sea scorpions bigger than a human swam the oceans prior to the age of the dinosaurs. The study, which has been published in Gondwana Research, notes that ...

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 ...

GIANT sea scorpions much larger than humans once roamed and hunted in ancient oceans. The creepy creatures have been documented in a new study that's attempting to fill in the patchy scientific ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of two eurypterids, or sea scorpions, that lived around 400 million years ago in AustraliaCredit: Getty The gargantuan creatures are called eurypterids ...

“I kind of didn’t expect it, and I kind of didn’t believe it.” (Six-foot-long marine “sea scorpions” skulked the ancient oceans 467 million years ago, but they were not true scorpions ...

The world is losing monsters left and right. First the T-Rex went vegetarian and turned into a bird, and now it looks like giant, ancient sea scorpions might have eaten only greens as well.

Ancient sea scorpions, which once crawled the primordial seas, used serrated, slashing tail spines to overpower their prey, new research from the University of Alberta suggests. These predators ...

Sea scorpions, for instance. Long before the era when mastodons roamed this Michigan land, even before the time of the saltwater coral that would eventually fossilize into our beloved Petoskey ...

Almost half a billion years ago, way before the dinosaurs roamed, Earth's dominant large predator was a sea scorpion that grew to 5 feet 7 inches, with a dozen claw arms sprouting from its head ...

During the Paleozoic era, a group of giant sea scorpions lived approximately 444 million years ago. Evidence of these massive creatures called eurypterids from the family Pterygotidae has been ...

Their paper is published in the journal Gondwana Research. There once existed a group of giant sea scorpions belonging to the family Pterygotidae, some as large as an adult human being ...