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Here is a new pic from the scorpion claw and the man who discovered it.
He is smiling as he knows that several scientific works and books have to be rewritten because of him.
For comparison, here is one of the biggest scorpions living in our time.
That prehistoric one would had been able to turn things around and hold that man on its claw
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truly astounding......the Curse of the CLAW strikes the scientific world....
Perhaps wemay get to see it in a movie sometime, spitting venom and carrying itself around like it owns the joint!
And just who or what would mess with it?
One can imagine giant dino's 'tip-toeing' around the tulips to avoid these nasty surprises...
Rather like we do with todays version of the scorp..........ironic eh?
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Saw something interesting on the Science channel a while back, with regards to giant scorpions and giant spiders. According to the program, evolution did a sort of flip-flop with regards to scorpions, arachnids and fish. Something about big scorpions turning into little scorpions for various reasons, while the fish ruled.
Oh, and as for the big bugs at the top of page 1... Yuck!!!
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Originally posted by PhantomKira:
Saw something interesting on the Science channel a while back, with regards to giant scorpions and giant spiders. According to the program, evolution did a sort of flip-flop with regards to scorpions, arachnids and fish. Something about big scorpions turning into little scorpions for various reasons, while the fish ruled.
Oh, and as for the big bugs at the top of page 1... Yuck!!!
I saw a very interesting docu about this topic.
So far the biggest spider thought to have ever existed had the size of middle-sized dog.
It lived long after the Dinosaurs extincted but also long before humans came into existence.
Too big and heavy to build nets it lived in holes closed with a lid just like many spider species of our time do.
Researchers believe that the size of insects is connected to availability of oxygen in the earth's athmosphere.
Spiders for example have no lungs and blood like other animals. They use a different ,related organ for breathing.
Named spider could only reach the size of a dog as the earth's atmosphere contained a much higher percentage of oxygen than those of our days.
Meaning that insects were generally larger than today and their reduction in size is related to the drop in oxygen levels over millions of years to our current levels we consider to be normal now.
According to this assumption, researchers believed that there could not be a bigger insect than this spider.
This seascorpion claw found in Germany proofs that the animal it once belonged to was a insect and was MUCH larger than this giant spider.
Obviously , these pre-historic oxygen levels supported much bigger sizes of insects than previously assumed or the oxygen level in the oceans was higher than on land for some yet unknown reasons.
But yes, it could be that there were even larger spiders on land too.
Today we dont need to worry about this.
We know that the oxygen level of our atmosphere is not high enough to let spiders become bigger than the Heteropoda Maxima, the biggest spider on our planet.
A bigger spider just would'nt be able to breathe in our atmosphere.
Heteropoda Maxima
BTW: This spider is much much MUUUUCH older than we humans are. Researches believe the Heteropoda Maxima species exists since millions of years with little to no evolutionic change over that time span. It is also pre-historic and still lives
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Very interesting! I thought giant spiders and scorpions were created by the likes of Ray Harryhausen! His creations still look scarey, even today.
Reminds me of something REALLY sick I saw on a TV documentary about Amazonian indians... (don't read on if your squeamish!)... The film showed a group of tribesmen were looking for big spiders that live in holes in the ground. When the tribesmen found a nest, they irritated the spider inside with sticks. When it came out, one of the men quickly pressed the poor spider's body against the ground with his hand, then folded all its legs up over its body to kill it. Then he wrapped it up in leaves, and later roasted it on hot coals, and ate it!Originally posted by Celeon999:
Too big and heavy to build nets it lived in holes closed with a lid just like many spider species of our time do.
It still makes me shudder when I think about it.
