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LONDON — This was a bug you wouldn’t want to swat and definitely not step on.
British scientists have stumbled on the fossilized claw of an ancient sea scorpion that is so large, the entire creature may be the biggest bug ever. How big? Bigger than you, and, at 8 feet long, as big as some cars.
The find in 390-million-year-old rocks suggests spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were far larger than once thought, said Simon Braddy, a University of Bristol paleontologist. “We never realized until now just how big some of these ancient creepy-crawlies were.”
