Meet Pentecopterus, a fearsome predator of a bygone geologic period that paleontologists just unveiled in anew scientific paper.
The new species is incredibly bizarre, said lead study author James Lamsdell in astatement.
Its also big over a meter and a half long!
Its quite possibly the largest, and certainly the oldest eurypterid known to science.
Scale bar 1 mm.
Image Credit: James Lamsdell
Pentecopterus Leg.
Scale bar 1 cm.
And that were all a bunch of major wimps for freaking out over spiders.
Top: Artists impression Pentecopterus.
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Now, scientists say it belonged to a Denisovan man.
