Scorpion bigger than human described

world-science-news ^ | Nov. 30, 2005

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Post a picture of Chester Carville......snake-eyes.

[Political Junkie Too]

Or this?

-PJ

[Strategerist]

I'm curious as to how they arrived at 330 million years ago.

Fossil was found in rock strata 330 million years old.

In non-scientific articles about science you're not going to get a 10 page long description of how every date in the article was arrived at citing every source and technique used, just as in every newspaper article about some criminal convicted with DNA you're not going to get a 10 page long blow-by-blow description of how the DNA test was done.

[BadAndy]

"Scorpion bigger than human described "

I saw that movie in the 60's. Next they will find a Praying Mantis bigger than a DC-9. I saw that one too. Everything I needed to learn about paleontology I learned from monster movies.

[dinoparty]

LOL, rock me like a hurricane.

I never knew that the singer was so tiny!

[Junior]

The Smithsonian used to have a partial fossil of a sea scorpion that measured some two meters from head to tail.

[RockinRight]

He's apparently about the same height as Ronnie James Dio.

[pabianice]

The tracks show that this thought to be extinct group of animals, previously thought to dwell in water only, could also survive on land, according to Whyte. They survive today, principally as officers in The National Organization for Women...

[OB1kNOb]

Man, what a set of stingers!

[Sam Cree]

"The tracks were made about 330 million years ago..."

Thank God for small favors.

[S0122017]

There are also crabs of a meter wide, saw one in preservatives. Must make great pets.

[Lady Jag]

Talking about ugly!

[mlc9852]

A simple mention of the type of dating would have been sufficient.

[nomorelurker]

I know scorpions are not insects but arachnids. However don't they have a size limit because of how they breath?

[Gator101]

I saw Harry Hamlin fighting some of these things back in the 80's!!!

[BadAndy]

"I'm curious as to how they arrived at 330 million years ago."

A guide at a museum was showing tourists a fossil she claimed was 500,011 years old. Someone asked how they could date it so accurately? The guide replied that 11 years ago they were told it was 500,000 years old. :-}

[presidio9]

FINISH HIM!!!

[N. Theknow]

I'm curious as to how they arrived at 330 million years ago.

Some scientists swore it couldn't have been a day over 315 million.

[Marine_Uncle]

" Sorry for the flood of pings today..."
No problem. Hmmmm. Wonder how the Allien would have did against this beastie. One heck of a battle I am sure. Throw them into the pit mateys!

[vollmond]

You can run in to these things all over Durotar.