There was a giant sea scorpion 2, 5 m in length

These scorpions are already extinct. By schastyu.



Recently in Germany it was found a giant fossilized claw of the sea scorpion. Analysis of the findings showed that those monsters lived between 460 and 255 million years ago and were significantly higher than the average person.

Also, findings show that prehistoric insects, spiders, crabs, and other eerie creatures were in the distant past, a lot more than we can imagine. Sea Scorpion or eurypterids Jaekelopterus Rhenania was almost half a meter longer than previously thought, making it the largest known ever existed arthropods.

There are various theories that attempt to explain why these giant arthropods were so huge. Some believe that this is due to higher levels of oxygen in the atmosphere, while others say that the reason was the "arms race" - only if such amounts could deal with hard-production, for example, an armored fish.



Dr. Simon Breddi of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol and co-author of the discovery believes that the definitive explanation can not be. It is likely that some ancient arthropods were so huge because they had almost no competition from the vertebrates - such vertebrates as today, millions of years ago did not exist. If today, the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere suddenly increase, it does not mean that the insects vymahal to epic proportions.

via factroom.ru