Two words you probably don’t want to hear in one sentence? Sea scorpion. Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest specimen of (yikes) sea scorpion in an ancient meteor impact crater in Iowa, and ...

A team of researchers found a fossil of a sea scorpion that was about 3 feet. That's about the size of a dog – and not a chihuahua either. Mixopterids, the most remarkable of the eurypterid (sea ...

A 3.3 foot-long (1 meter) sea scorpion prowled the seas of what is now China some 435 million years ago, using its giant, spiny arms to ensnare prey. Palaeontologists recently discovered the remains ...

Imagination can be overrated. Visitors to Carnegie Museum of Natural History have long been asked to imagine the creature that made the mysterious tracks on a one-ton block of dark coarse sandstone ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new species of Giant Sea Scorpion was discovered in New Mexico. Curator of Paleontology Spencer Lucas explains more about the discovery and what we know so far. A member ...

Through computed tomography (CT) imaging, geologists found evidence of air breathing in a 340 million-year-old sea scorpion, or eurypterid. Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea ...

Scientists have discovered a giant ancient sea scorpion species in New Mexico that lived between 307 and 303 million years ago. Hibbertopterus lamsdelli was over a metre long and likely lived in a ...