A terrifying giant scorpion measuring 3.2 feet (one metre) long roamed Britain 415 million years ago, a new study has found.
With a length comparable to that of a Labrador and armed with pincers over 6.3 inches (16cm) long, Praearcturus gigas would have been a formidable apex predator.
It stalked the floodplains of what is now England and Wales long before trees even evolved.
Scientists from the Natural History Museum have now declared the scorpion the largest of its kind ever to exist.
And its anatomy suggests it was capable of moving easily between water and land.
‘When we think of giant arthropods, people often
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