An ancient scorpion looked familiarSourced
A scorpion fossil is hundreds of millions of years old.
Its shape looks strikingly familiar.
The extinct scorpion genus Eoscorpius lived from the Early Carboniferous into the Early Permian. Its fossils share many features with modern scorpions, a resemblance that puzzled nineteenth-century researchers.
The fossil has
a surprisingly familiar outline.
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