In Depth Gigantoscorpio is a genus of scorpion known to have lived in Scotland during the Carboniferous period. Because the genus is known only from partial remains, full details about its size and body proportions are currently unavailable. However, the genus has been occasionally estimated to have been as much as ninety centimetres long, which … Read more
In Depth Kerygmachela was an aquatic arthropod of the Cambrian that is thought to be related to the larger Anomalocaris, hence the placement of Kerygmachela within the Anomalocarididae. The type species name, K. kierkegaardi, is in honour of Soren Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher. Kerygmachela had eleven pairs of lateral lobes, out growths that extended from … Read more