Asked to rank giant sea scorpions on a scale of one to terrifying, Russell Bicknell puts them at about an eight. "I suppose it depends how you define terrifying," Bicknell, a paleobiologist at the ...

Around 400 million years ago, Earth’s oceans were dominated by massive sea scorpions. Scorpions, as we know them today, are already pretty terrifying — now imagine them being larger than ...

Researchers have discovered that enormous sea scorpions bigger than a human swam the oceans prior to the age of the dinosaurs. The study, which has been published in Gondwana Research, notes that ...

Violent storms, dramatic changes in oxygen levels, not much dry land — and in the water, there were giant, carnivorous sea scorpions. Scientists knew these creatures were big. Now they've found ...

Until recently, researchers have found most sea scorpion fossils in North America and Europe. But recent finds in China and Australia suggest that these arthropods may have migrated long distances.

Sea scorpions thrived for 200 million years, coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Sea scorpions thrived for 200 million years, coming in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Over time ...

GIANT sea scorpions much larger than humans once roamed and hunted in ancient oceans. The creepy creatures have been documented in a new study that's attempting to fill in the patchy scientific ...

Two words you probably don't want to hear in one sentence? Sea scorpion. Well, happy Tuesday. Scientists have discovered the world's oldest specimen of (yikes) sea scorpion in an ancient meteor ...

Scientists have uncovered the remains of two eurypterids, or sea scorpions, that lived around 400 million years ago in AustraliaCredit: Getty The gargantuan creatures are called eurypterids ...

“I kind of didn’t expect it, and I kind of didn’t believe it.” (Six-foot-long marine “sea scorpions” skulked the ancient oceans 467 million years ago, but they were not true scorpions ...

By Rebecca Dzombak Most modern scorpions would fit in the palm of your hand. But in the oceans of the Paleozoic era more than 400 million years ago, animals known popularly as sea scorpions were ...

The world is losing monsters left and right. First the T-Rex went vegetarian and turned into a bird, and now it looks like giant, ancient sea scorpions might have eaten only greens as well.