
The find, in a quarry near the western German border town of Pruem, is the biggest specimen of arthropod ever found.

Using the claw as a benchmark, the scientists believe its owner was between 2.33 and 2.59 metres (7.57 and 8.41 feet) long.
Chelicerae -- wand-like appendages used to grasp food and bring it to the beast's mandibles -- would have added another half-metre (1.6 feet).
Despite their name, sea scorpions, known as eurypterids, were not true scorpions. Equipped with long, flat, jointed carapaces, they stalked warm shallow sea waters from around 500 million to 250 million years ago, eventually moving into in fresh water.
Source: Afp
Tags: Scorpion | Arthropod | Jaekelopterus Rhenaniae | Fossil | Claw
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