Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago

Researchers Identify World's Largest Scorpion That Roamed Earth 415 Million Years Ago Authored by Maria Mocerino via Interesting Engineering, The University of Manchester has discovered that the world's largest scorpion, which lived 415 million years ago, was hiding in the museum's collection for 150 years. Since the 1870s, researchers have debated the identity of the strange fossil remains lurking in the Manchester archives. They possessed tiny fragments recovered from sites in England and Wales that puzzled them, but they could not piece them together. Was it a large woodlouse-crustacean? Life reconstruction of Praearcturus...