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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
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415 million years ago, giant scorpions the size of a Golden Retreiver prowled Britain — and its story is now rewriting prehistoric history

Long before forests covered the land and millions of years before dinosaurs appeared, an enormous scorpion was already moving through the landscapes of what is now Britain.

Scientists have identified Praearcturus gigas as the largest scorpion known to science after taking a fresh look at fossil material that had spent more than a century in museum collections.

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