One of its claws might feed an entire family, but this sea creature would be more likely to eat the family. British researchers said Tuesday that they have discovered an 18-inch-long fossilized claw ...

Sam Ciurca, who collected the sea scorpion specimens, with a life size model of one called Acutiramus. (Sam Ciurca) Gigantic sea scorpions that lurked in the ocean more than 400 million years ago ...

A newly described species of sea scorpion measures over 1.5 metres long and lived 460 million years ago. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the ...

A new scorpion species found fossilized in the rocks of a backyard could turn the scientific understanding of these stinging creatures on its head. The fossils suggest that ancient scorpions crawled ...

Over 290 million years ago, a thriving forest ecosystem was brought to a sudden end. A volcanic eruption nearby produced a pyroclastic flow, in which a current of fast-moving hot gas and rock ...

Ancient sea scorpions included the largest and arguably most frightening bug-like creatures known to have lived on Earth, but despite their fearsome claws, these giants might actually have been ...

Fossils of the mighty sea creatures, formally known as eurypterids, were rarely found in Australia until now THE discovery of the remnants of enormous ancient scorpions has left scientists with more ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have found the fossilised claw of a 2.5-metre (8-foot) sea scorpion, a nightmarish creature living before the age of dinosaurs. The discovery of the 390-million-year-old ...

Scientists have discovered and described a new species of scorpion, Euscorpius lycius, coming from the area of ancient Lycia, nowadays the regions of the Mugla and Antalya Provinces in Southwestern ...

Gigantic sea scorpions that lurked in the ocean more than 400 million years ago weren't as scary as they sound, a new study suggests. The massive creatures, known as pterygotids, were the largest ...

Ancient sea scorpions included the largest and arguably most frightening bug-like creatures known to have lived on Earth, but despite their fearsome claws, these giants might actually have been ...