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Scorpion bigger than human described Nov. 30, 2005 Courtesy Nature and World Science staff A geologist working in Scotland has uncovered footprints that he says come from a fearsome water scorpion bigger than a human. The Desert Hairy Scorpion Hadrurus arizonensis (Courtesy Imagers NASA Science Education) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The tracks were made about 330 million years ago by a six-legged creature called Hibbertopterus, according to Martin Whyte of the University of Sheffield, U.K. Hibbertopterus was some 1.6 metres (5¼ feet) long and a metre (3¼ feet) wide, he added. The tracks show that this now-extinct group of animals, previously thought to...

Woman Moves in with Scorpions KUALA LUMPUR - Scorpions will be the bedfellows of a 24-year-old Malaysian woman for more than a month, as she tries to set a new world record for living with the venomous animals. Nur Malena Hassan moved into a glass box with 6,000 scorpions at a shopping mall in Kuantan, about 160 miles east of Kuala Lumpur on Saturday, Malaysia's New Sunday Times reported. Nur Malena showed no sign of fear as she entered the box, the paper reported, and scorpions soon began crawling over her body as she was monitored by medical staff...