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 ...

Because giant sea scorpions' fossil record is largely based in the U.S. and Europe, Bicknell and his colleagues surmise they made "quite a substantial trek" of thousands of kilometres to end up in ...

Until recently, researchers have found most sea scorpion fossils in North America and Europe. ... Giant Sea Scorpions Used to Roam Our Seas. Story by Martin Walsh • 9mo.

During the Paleozoic era, a group of giant sea scorpions lived approximately 444 million years ago. Evidence of these massive creatures called eurypterids from the family Pterygotidae has been ...

In 2010, a portion of the Upper Iowa River was excavated and fossils of the giant Sea Scorpion were discovered. Luther College is home to a life-sized model of the sea scorpion created by students.