Dog-sized scorpions threatened the seafloor 400 million years ago.-image-8.jpg


Imagine a scorpion, a tiny monster with characteristic spiny claws and an eerie curled stinger. Now magnify that image until the poisonous insect is more than 3 feet (about a meter) long. Scientists have found fossils of the creature more than 400 million years ago on the seafloor of China.

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The giant swimming beast, dubbed Terropterus xiushanensis, is part of the Mixopteridae family, a group of large, scorpion-like creatures with spiky tipped parts and a needle-like tail that are reminiscent of scorpion-like creatures. Serrated knife

“These limbs are probably used for catching prey. "These 'catch baskets' were created by the spiny pedipalps of whip spiders," the study authors write in a paper on the findings to be published in the November issue of the journal Science Bulletin.

"Our knowledge of these strange animals is limited to four species in two genera described 80 years ago," an international group of researchers said in the study. These threatening insect relatives are found throughout Scotland, New York, Norway and Estonia.

But this giant bloodsucking insect It was the first species to be discovered near southern China. and is the oldest known member of the formidable family Mixopteridae. In ancient times, in the early Silurian period, between 443.8 million years ago and 419.2 million years ago, the area was called Gondwana.