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Tracks of extinct, giant scorpion found in Scotland
"Tracks made 330 million years ago by a six-legged water scorpion bigger than a human have been found in Scotland.
Martin Whyte, the geologist at the University of Sheffield in northern England who discovered the tracks, said on Wednesday they were left by a scorpion that measured 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 inches) in length and one metre across.
"To my knowledge, this is ... the largest terrestrial trackway of a walking arthropod to be found so far," he said in a report in the journal Nature."
Tracks of extinct, giant scorpion found in Scotland
"Tracks made 330 million years ago by a six-legged water scorpion bigger than a human have been found in Scotland.
Martin Whyte, the geologist at the University of Sheffield in northern England who discovered the tracks, said on Wednesday they were left by a scorpion that measured 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 inches) in length and one metre across.
"To my knowledge, this is ... the largest terrestrial trackway of a walking arthropod to be found so far," he said in a report in the journal Nature."
