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World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago

World's largest scorpion had 6-inch pincers, and prowled UK land and waters 415 million years ago Enigmatic 415 million-year-old fossils belong to a giant scorpion that may have reached lengths of around 3 feet (1 meter), a remarkable body size because most life on land at that time was small. The world's largest known scorpion lived at a time when other land animals were relatively small, around 415 million years ago in what is now the U.K., a new study finds. The prehistoric creature,...