The Scorpion That Is As Big As A Human!

Imagine that you are swimming near the beach, maybe about twenty feet out, and you are just enjoying your long deserved unpaid vacation, sipping pina coladas and just soaking in the sun along with the general majesty of the great expansive blue ocean when, all of the sudden, an enormous lobster-looking beast that is 6 feet long emerges from the salty surface with its beady eyes directed precisely at you, hoping to make a quick snack out of you and your cute little raft.  What do you do?

Well unless you are 467 million years old you will not have any memory of these terrible monsters because god did us a favor and erased these hell-beasts from the earth about that long ago.  But recently a team of archeologists from Iowa stumbled upon remarkably well preserved fossils of these monsters.  Frankly I would be terrified just to see a fossil of this guy, but what they are actually called is Pentecopterus, or for the rest of us who are not monster scientists, Giant Sea Scorpions.

These guys were naturally predators.  They enjoyed spending their time in shallow parts of the ocean, which has allowed their fossils to be uncovered with relative ease and in a remarkably well preserved state.  The fossils were so well preserved that creating a lifelike model of the terrible thing is quite easily done.  So if you are afraid of sharks, then just Google Image The Giant Sea Scorpion and realize that the ocean could be far more terrifying.

Do you know of any other terrifying insects from millions of years ago? What were they like?