Largest scorpion ever grew to over three-feet long and had six-inch pinchers, according to nightmare-inducing study
- Posted on June 6, 2026
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Largest scorpion ever grew to over three-feet long and had six-inch pinchers, according to nightmare-inducing study
It’s an arachnophobe’s worst nightmare. A child-size scorpion that roamed the UK 400 million years ago is thought to be largest of its kind to ever exist, per a skin-crawling study in the journal Paleontology. “So we can safely say it’s extremely large and there’s no other scorpion in the fossil record that has claws anywhere near that size,” declared the study’s lead author Dr. Richard Howard of the Natural History Museum in London, the BBC...
