Scientists identify largest known scorpion from Devonian fossils (opens in new tab)

Scientists from the University of Manchester and the Natural History Museum in London have identified Praearcturus gigas, a Devonian scorpion that lived about 415 million years ago in what is now England and Wales, as the largest scorpion species known to science. The animal reached roughly 1 meter, or 3.3 feet, with pincers more than 16 centimeters, or 6.3 inches, long. The study, published in Palaeontology, reclassified fossil material held in the Natural History Museum’s collections since ...