It’s a huge find for Australia, as Dr. Poschmann says it helps fill in the gap of our knowledge about prehistoric sea scorpions in that country and worldwide. The researchers also say that they ...

Still, next to nothing is known about most local scorpion species. During the Paleozoic Era, giant sea scorpions would have been the equivalent of a great white shark in their food web.

Previous reef-builders such as bryozoans were joined by corals and prehistoric sponges known ... food chain were the fearsome eurypterids, or sea scorpions. Some species grew to more than six ...