...There are giant scorpions that swim??Logan Westbrook said:
Scottish high five!cousinletsgobowling said:im not ffrom fife but im close.clackmannenshire!lewism247 said:HOLY CRAP!Logan Westbrook said:Fossilized Radscorpian Tracks Found in Scotland
The fossilized tracks of a giant prehistoric scorpion have been discovered in the UK.
Scientists have found the fossilized tracks of a giant scorpion-like creature called Hibbertopterus in the sandstone of Fife, Scotland. The tracks were discovered by Dr Martin Whyte from the University of Sheffield while he was out walking.
If you were to meet the Hibbertopterus, you'd probably run the other way as quickly as you could, as it was over six feet long and more than three feet wide, basically about the same size of a giant radscorpian in the Fallout games.
"Removing it and housing it in a museum would be prohibitively costly," said Richard Batchelor from Geoheritage Fife. "But molding it in silicone rubber and making copies for educational and research purposes means that we can still see and research this huge creature's tracks in years to come."
This discovery is especially exciting to scientists as it was previously thought that Hibbertopterus spent most of its time in water, rather than walking around for prolonged periods.
Source: Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7613128/Gigantic-scorpion-fossil-found-in-Fife.html]
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I'm from Fife
and that's pretty cool, I remember it being on a documentary thing a while ago about the evolution of humans.
Screw riding, I wanna see a Scotsman in a kilt and a claymore charging one of these things screaming like a primeval hooligan.allnorweiganwood said:
Or else you might end up "unarmed!"Megacherv said:
Okay only certain Scotscousinletsgobowling said:a dinny :Llewism247 said:Scottish high five!cousinletsgobowling said:im not ffrom fife but im close.clackmannenshire!lewism247 said:HOLY CRAP!Logan Westbrook said:Fossilized Radscorpian Tracks Found in Scotland
The fossilized tracks of a giant prehistoric scorpion have been discovered in the UK.
Scientists have found the fossilized tracks of a giant scorpion-like creature called Hibbertopterus in the sandstone of Fife, Scotland. The tracks were discovered by Dr Martin Whyte from the University of Sheffield while he was out walking.
If you were to meet the Hibbertopterus, you'd probably run the other way as quickly as you could, as it was over six feet long and more than three feet wide, basically about the same size of a giant radscorpian in the Fallout games.
"Removing it and housing it in a museum would be prohibitively costly," said Richard Batchelor from Geoheritage Fife. "But molding it in silicone rubber and making copies for educational and research purposes means that we can still see and research this huge creature's tracks in years to come."
This discovery is especially exciting to scientists as it was previously thought that Hibbertopterus spent most of its time in water, rather than walking around for prolonged periods.
Source: Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7613128/Gigantic-scorpion-fossil-found-in-Fife.html]
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I'm from Fife
and that's pretty cool, I remember it being on a documentary thing a while ago about the evolution of humans.
i'm from the lang toon (Only Scots will know where that is)
(The ghouls always creeped me out more)
They have nothing on the Albino ones, now those are the things of nightmares.MiracleOfSound said:Giant Radscorpions - the most terrifying creature in a game.
I've had nightmares about them...
...and now I find out they're REAL.
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