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World’s largest scorpion revealed from 415-million-year-old fossils


• Fossil fragments suggest Praearcturus gigas represents the largest scorpion ever discovered, perhaps one metre in length• Specimens held in the Natural History Museum collection since the 1870s have been reinterpreted using modern techniques• Giant scorpion lived tens of millions of years before other famous “giant” arthropods, resha...

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