A fossil 'cold case' in Queensland Museum's geosciences collection has led to the description of a new species of sea scorpion (eurypterid), Woodwardopterus freemanorum, which is not only the last ...

Specimens of what appear to be the largest eurypterid species found in Australia could shed light on the sudden extinction of the massive arthropods. By Rebecca Dzombak Most modern scorpions would fit ...

Eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata), normally known as sea scorpions, are an important extinct group of Paleozoic chelicerate arthropods. Researchers led by Profs. Zhang Haichun, Wang Bo, Zhang ...

This is a reconstruction of eurypterid (sea scorpion) chasing a condont (early vertebrate). The Soom Shale is one of only two deposits world-wide that preserves complete conodont animals including ...

Researchers have discovered the fossil of a bizarre and previously unknown species of ‘sea scorpion’, which measured over 1.5 metres long, and may have been the Earth’s dominant large predator 460 ...