Youngest Sea Scorpion Fossil Found in Australia

Woodwardopterus freemanorum was over 1 m (3.3 toes) in size and lived some 252 million years in the past (Late Permian epoch) in a freshwater setting. Woodwardopterus freemanorum lived in what’s now Australia roughly 252 million years in the past. The historic creature belongs to Eurypterida (sea scorpions), an extinct order of aquatic predatory invertebrates that lived from […]