The Institute for Creation Research

There are few animals more nightmarish than an 8-foot sea scorpion! Although, they were not true scorpions, their fossils display a menacing and formidable creature. The discovery of a giant fossilized claw from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been about 2.5 meters [8.2 feet] long, much taller than the average man.¹ We all can breathe a sigh of relief as most of them seemed to have perished in the Flood about 4500 years ago, or at least went extinct shortly thereafter. Sea scorpions (order Eurypterida) are a chelicerate arthropod. They have...