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Stories about: scorpions

Fossil Reveals the Origins of Claws A 390 million year-old fossil of a long-extinct animal sheds new light on the evolution of scorpions and horseshoe crabs, and especially on how they developed their frontal claws. The perfectly-preserved specimen is the only one known of its species, and has been named Schinderhannes bartelsi. Investigators from the ... 6 February 2009 04:54 GMT