During this age in Earth’s history, between 541 million and 252 million years ago, arthropods (animals with exoskeletons such as insects, crustaceans, scorpions, and horseshoe crabs) were ...

In the prehistoric oceans, this was one bad bug. Scientists are marveling at the world's oldest sea scorpion — the Pentecopterus, named after a Greek warship. Imagine a creature nearly 6 feet in ...

it was a giant among its kind, standing out as the largest known scorpion fossil from the Mesozoic era. The discovery sheds ...

But beyond the rugged beauty of this Golden State destination, adventurers come here to see colossal serpents slithering, giant sloths ... visionary behind these prehistoric sculptures is SoCal ...

Imagine a giant millipede crawling along the jungle ... it wasn’t just friendly millipedes growing jumbo-sized. An early scorpion, known as the Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis, could have been ...

Scientists have discovered a rare fossil of a giant, venomous scorpion that ... making it a significant predator. This prehistoric scorpion likely hunted insects, small reptiles, and even tiny ...

The fossil record is full of examples of other prehistoric animals that would dwarf their modern relatives. Another such example is Jaekelopterus rhenaniae, a giant arthropod which grew to 2.5m (8 ...