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Giant sea scorpions were the underwater titans of prehistoric Australia

  • Written by Russell Dean Christopher Bicknell, Post-doctoral researcher in Palaeobiology , University of New England
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Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction wiped out 95% of all organisms – we had the Paleozoic Era.

During this age in Earth’s history, between 541 million and 252 million years ago, arthropods...

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