Chapter 358: Prehistoric Scorpion King
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According to the British newspaper Every Post, this is bad news for all reptiles who hold a grudge: scientists have found scorpions taller than humans, a full 8 feet tall (equivalent to 2.4 meters). Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info However, the good news is that it became extinct as early as 390 million years ago. The findings were published in the previously published journal Biological Letters.
With an estimated weight of 400 pounds (about 181.4 kilograms) and legs averaging 18 inches (about 45.7 centimeters) long, this deadly marine scorpion is the ancient ancestor of today's scorpions. This discovery suggests that there was an era of horror before the dinosaurs. A large number of ancient spiders, insects, and crabs at that time were gigantic. In addition to its size, this marine scorpion also has the appearance of modern scorpions, which lived in the salt water of the oceans and the freshwater of lakes and rivers from about 460 million to 255 million years ago.
Simon, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, UK? Dr. Brandi said the discovery proved that ancient spiders, insects, and crabs were giants. "This is an amazing finding. I think this animal will have a lot of force and can tear people apart. Monster-like millipedes, scorpions, cockroaches, and dragonflies have appeared in the fossil record as we know, but we never knew exactly how big they were, and it wasn't until today that we really knew the exact size of these ancient megafauna. ””
The scorpion's remains were found in rocks near an oasis in the Sahara Desert. Perhaps, this oasis was an ocean a few hundred million years ago.
When Dr. Brandi and his colleagues excavated the area, they found a black spot on the rock, which was cleaned and found to be a large claw, indicating that it was a leg over 18 inches, exceeding the length of the leg of the largest species previously known. This marine scorpion has an armor shell and a huge body, suggesting that they were once the kings of the animal kingdom, at the top of the food chain, eating fish and trilobites, and even eating each other.
Just when Wang Hao was surrounded by scorpions in the desert, today's British "Every Post" published the above news.
"Desert scorpions, don't move, scorpions have poor eyesight and basically have no ability to search, track, chase and find targets from a distance. It mainly perceives the air vibration caused by the activity of small insects around it to find the target, and it has a strong predatory ability for the very agile housefly, and relatively poor for the slower one. As long as we don't move, they won't attack us......" Wang Hao's cold face changed color.
"Scorpion...... Well...... Well...... Got it, isn't that tail their weapon? We can use our true qi all over our bodies......" Sun Jianda was suddenly relieved, he had lived in the south for a long time, and he only heard of the name of the scorpion.
"It's infuriating! How long can you run True Qi Defense? Wang Hao frowned and looked at the boundless scorpions, which was a bit abnormal, scorpions generally rarely migrated in such a large-scale group.
Sun Jian's scalp was numb for a while, he couldn't move, he couldn't use his true qi to defend, although Sun Jian's true qi could last for a long time, but who could guarantee that these scorpions wouldn't be able to finish it for a few days and nights? In this desert, anything can happen, and it is already a miracle that this endless scorpion appears all at once.
At this time, the dense scorpions had already surrounded the entire sandy area where Wang Hao and Sun Jian were standing, these scorpions seemed to emerge from the ground as suddenly, looking at the rows full of color, as if they were collectively migrating, many scorpions only paused slightly when they met Wang Hao and Sun Jian's legs, and immediately disappeared in the direction they were moving into the scorpion stream, and it was no longer possible to tell that the scorpion had just passed by the feet of Wang Hao and Sun Jian......
"My lord, this is ...... When will this army of scorpions be over, it seems that there is no end......" Sun Jian pitifully carried the bazooka, and now he realized that it was a very painful thing to maintain an unchanged posture and still carry weight.
"I don't know, scorpions are creatures with strong vitality, even if it is a single one, it is difficult for something to threaten them under normal circumstances, and now they seem to be fleeing collectively, if there is not a natural disaster, there is a strong natural enemy!" Wang Hao glanced at the sky solemnly, and sensed the shaking of the earth's crust with his senses, there were no earthquakes or other changes, could there be a creature so powerful that such a huge scorpion group would avoid?
"These little things are amazing?" Sun Jian didn't believe it, the reason why he was afraid now was that there were too many scorpions, so many that he didn't dare to use force.
"Scorpions have developed a habit of hunger tolerance and large appetite because of their low predation ability caused by visual reasons, and in the presence of water and weathered soil, scorpions can survive for 8~9 months without eating or drinking. A hungry scorpion can eat food about its body weight at a time, and a scorpion lives for 3 weeks at a temperature of 10C. At this time, the ice is melted and the scorpion is warmed up, and its metabolism will quickly return to normal. Similarly, scorpions are very tolerant of high temperatures, and fat-tailed scorpions from Tunisia can withstand prolonged high temperatures, and few animals can withstand such high temperatures. When the temperature rises, it wants to burrow. Even in the hottest places on earth, scorpions can survive for a long time. A nuclear test was carried out in the Sahara Desert a long time ago, and all the other animals died, except for the scorpion. It can withstand more than 200 times the amount of radiation that can kill people...... "Wang Hao is like a treasure."
"It's just that it's just a strong vitality, hehe!" Sun Jian said with a big grin.
"If it's really just a strong vitality, we don't have to wait for this army of scorpions to pass by, the scorpion's tail thorn can be used in medicine, also known as stinger, poison needle, stinger, located in the last section of the body. It consists of a spherical base and a sharp, curved barb that shoots venom through a pinhole-like opening at the tip of the barb. Scorpion venom is produced by a pair of oval, spherical glands with thin tubes connected to two needle-like openings at the tip of a crochet needle. Each glandular bread has a thin layer of smooth muscle fibers, with the help of strong muscle contraction, venom is ejaculated by the venom gland, the world's most poisonous scorpion can poison an elephant, and the attack time is very short, there is no time to cure it! It just so happens that this highly venomous scorpion is in the Sahara Desert! Looking at the scorpions flowing like a river, Wang Hao's heart trembled a little, if one end caused these endless scorpion attacks, he and Sun Jian would be dead even if they were martial arts.
"Knock knock ......" A huge running sound came, and in the sky under the white sun, a huge black shadow was rapidly moving towards this side.
The natural enemy of the scorpion appeared, and Wang Hao was shocked!
"Bazooka!" Wang Hao stared at the black shadow, his heart jumped suddenly, his pupils constricted, could it be that the monster of the YN life code escaped again?
The stone desert was shaking, and many small broken stones were jumping on the ground, and the black shadow in the distance seemed to be shaking a dark red ribbon on the ground...... Like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves all the way, Wang Hao's sharp eyes saw that it was a slender and long tongue, and when the tongue swept over the ground, countless scorpions were taken to the black hole on the head that could not be seen clearly......
......The black shadow stood in front of Wang Hao and Sun Jian, his head shook a few times, as if surprised, maybe Wang Hao and Sun Jian were the largest prey it had encountered in this desert.
At this time, the scorpions around Wang Hao and Sun Jian had already run away, and the two of them formed a strange circle with the monster, and the scorpion group was a circle, and now, this circle is getting bigger and bigger, scattering and escaping in a radial shape, under the powerful and fierce pressure of this monster, those little scorpions have no courage to stay and "watch the battle", and it is the best policy to leave the place of right and wrong early!
Wang Hao slowly moved the direction, the current position is very unfavorable, the sun is shining at the angle of the eyes, the tall size of the monster monster looks very confused, Sun Jian's bazooka is only one, the distance is so close, Sun Jian does not dare to launch rashly, of course, the key is that Sun Jian is not sure about the increased level of shooting, I remember that when he ambushed the US army in the forest, he shot down a helicopter and fired three missiles, if it wasn't for a veteran, he didn't see the opportunity well, He had already been beaten to the ground by the world's most formidable flying fortress......
The monster seemed to have a high level of intelligence and did not attack immediately, a pair of eyes in the backlight flashed red light to observe Wang Hao and Sun Jian who were moving slowly, and seemed to be a little afraid and delayed attacking.
Finally!
As the position moved, Sun Jian and Wang Hao saw the monster in front of them clearly, and the two of them gasped almost at the same time.
This monster is at least four meters tall, and it is impossible to guess how much it weighs, but according to Wang Hao's computer-like brain, this monster should weigh about 300 kilograms.
What is frightening is not the height and weight, but the appearance of this monster, this is a completely enlarged version of the scorpion, with a tail on its back that is bright red and shiny, however, these are not enough to make Wang Hao and Sun Jian feel pressure, this huge scorpion walks upright on its legs, its whole body is covered with armor, its slender limbs, its reddish-brown hard armor is full of strength, and a tongue that is more than eight meters long is swaying from side to side in the air with salivation......
The eyes that revealed a little red light were even more weird, except that the color was slightly red, this was completely a pair of human eyes, human eyes, yes! Wang Hao looked at the gurgling eyes almost certainly, because these eyes were always staring at the bazooka on Sun Jian's shoulder......
(To be continued)