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PARIS (AFP) - British and German researchers reported Wednesday they had discovered the giant fossilised claw of an ancient sea scorpion that, in its heyday hundreds of millions of years ago, would have been some 2.5 metres (8.1 feet) long.
The find, in a quarry near the western German border town of Pruem, is the biggest specimen of arthropod ever found, they said in a study published by Biology Letters, a journal of Britain's Royal Society.
"This is an amazing discovery," said Simon Braddy, from the Department of Earth Science at the University of Bristol in western England.
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The find, in a quarry near the western German border town of Pruem, is the biggest specimen of arthropod ever found, they said in a study published by Biology Letters, a journal of Britain's Royal Society.
"This is an amazing discovery," said Simon Braddy, from the Department of Earth Science at the University of Bristol in western England.
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