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2.5m Water Scorpion Stalks Southern Africa

Posted by Hemos on from the stalking-the-coastline dept.

MeredihtJT writes: "The giant water scorpion well over two metres long made its way slowly over the sea floor, about 100m to 200m below the surface of the water. It would take another 260 million years for South African Palaentologist, geologist and 'pizza-maker' Roger Smith to find it."

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  1. I don't understand by meggito · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What makes them beleive that these fossilized footprints are directly related to a scorpion that they have no other proof of?
    They talk about finding the fossil and how it means there was a giant scorpion, but not once does it say why they beleive that these trails were left by some giant scorpion. Why do these two long blobs automatically belong to a giant scorpion? Did they find a fossil? Was there some semblance between these footprints and a common day scorpion? They find an impression of a giant tail? I see absolutely 0 in any way tieing the footprints to a scorpion.