Scorpion fossils usually get trapped in amber, but in this case, Jeholia longchengi was trapped in rock, giving scientists a ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown scorpion species that lived around 240 million years ago. The discovery came after a team of paleontologists examined in detail a fossil that was ...

Researchers say the fossil was collected from the top of Kinney Quarry’s bed 3, a 15-16 cm thick, mostly ochre-colored, laminated, bituminous limestone to calcareous siltstone referred to as the ...

The latest fossils were imprinted in a rock layer in present-day New South Wales, Australia. They date back to the Silurian era (443.8 to 419.2 million years ago) and Devonian era (419.2 to 358.9 ...

The fossil was found at a site in New York State, in the US, that contains the famous Beecher’s Trilobite Bed, a layer of rock containing multiple well-preserved fossils.

Most modern scorpions would fit in the palm of your hand. But in the oceans of the Paleozoic era more than 400 million years ago, animals known popularly as sea scorpions were apex predators that ...

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 ...

The fossil of a giant sea scorpion that lived millions of years ago has been found in New Mexico in the US. The ancient species was over one metre long and fed on crustaceans such as small crabs.

Interestingly, scorpion fossils can still fluoresce, even after being trapped in rock for millions of years. They can feed on almost anything. Scorpions are primarily active at night.

Two “sea scorpion” fossils, about 400 million years old, have been found in NSW; ... The fossil in the rock wall turned out to be one of the creature’s underside plates.

In a stunning find, scientists in northeast China have discovered the fossil remains of a 125-million-year-old giant, venomous scorpion. It was discovered in the renowned Yixian Formation.