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Scorpions are attracted to water and can fall in your pool or toilet. Here's how long they can live in water and whether they come up through drains.
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 ...
Sea scorpions looked very much like today’s scorpions, but swam in the ocean. These formidable predators were at the top of the food chain, feasting on large fish and also on each other.
The crown for the world's largest-ever scorpion goes to Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, a monster that swam through ancient waters around 400 million years ago during the Early Devonian period.
Hitching a ride on a scorpion: the first record of phoresy of a myrmecophile pseudoscorpion on a myrmecophile scorpion. Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters. Vol. 66, No. 1.
A 437-million-year old scorpion was the earliest known creature to venture from sea onto land, a new study has found, shedding new light on one of the earliest chapters in the planet's ...