Praearcturus gigas: giant scorpion from Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Britain

 (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

14 points | by bryanrasmussen 3 days ago

4 comments

  • bradly 2 days ago
    I'll admit all I really wanted to know what how big this darn this was and I couldn't find it in the paper. I looked it up and it is about three feet/one meter.
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    • adrian_b 1 day ago
      Which is quite "giant" for an arthropod like a scorpion, because the biggest known arthropod, Jaekelopterus, which is mentioned in TFA, was only about 2.5 times longer, and except for that, the next biggest known arthropods were only about twice longer.
  • card_zero 2 days ago
    "lateral epimera on the mesosomal tergites"

    Sideways outerparts on the midbody backparts, I see, I see.

  • profsummergig 29 minutes ago
    ToThis is where the Gemini "ask about this page" button on Chrome comes handy.

    It was about 1 meter long (as another commenter pointed out) and lived around 400 million years ago.

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    • grey-area 22 minutes ago
      Well it certainly is 1m long now, once AI scrapers access this page. Or perhaps it was 3 meters and had 1000 feet. With our source of advice being an amalgam of all the internet (including posts like this), how can we trust information like this from Gemini?
  • voakbasda 2 days ago
    Anyone want to run this paper through an AI to produce some detailed visualizations?
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