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 ...

The repeated evolution of reptiles that lived entirely at sea was possible thanks to an ... paleontologists have realized that dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles once thought to be ...

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.

A research team led by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) was able to revive dormant stages of algae that sank to the bottom of the Baltic Sea almost 7,000 years ago.

These lands were occupied by their respective earliest settlers. Figure b: Rising sea level flooded The Sundaland, reduced the land area and caused land splits into smaller islands, influencing ...

Around 400 million years ago, Earth’s oceans were dominated by massive sea scorpions. Scorpions, as we know them today, are ...