Long before forests covered the land and when animals were only beginning to venture out of the oceans, a giant scorpion the ...

A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist. At about one meter ...

Imagine coming across a scorpion the size of a dog. It sounds shocking, but scientists say such a creature once existed. After an extensive new fossil study, researchers in the UK have confirmed the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Giant forest scorpion or Giant blue scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer) close-up on black background with reflection© Valt ...

An artist's impression of Praearcturus gigas. (Franz Anthony) If you were wandering around Earth's floodplains 415 million years ago, you wouldn't have come across any other mammals – but you would ...

Praearcturus gigas was a meter-long Devonian scorpion whose size may reflect a world with few large competitors rather than ...

Less than 10 per cent of Australian scorpions are known to science; two new species have just been added to the list. Scorpions are among the most ancient of land animals. Fossils indicate they were ...

A research team camping in one of Thailand’s most protected forests discovered a never-before-documented scorpion species hiding beneath a rock—a tiny predator barely an inch long with an unexpectedly ...

Giant forest scorpion or Giant blue scorpion (Heterometrus spinifer) close-up on black background with reflection© Valt Ahyppo/Shutterstock.com Many people deem scorpions as one of the most ...