A fierce predator with a huge stinger and long pincers is the oldest land-animal fossil ever found on the former Gondwana supercontinent, a new study reports. The 360-million-year-old scorpion was ...

The new genus and species, Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis, are described in Scorpiones incertae se dis on the basis of fragments from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Waterloo Farm locality near ...

350 million years ago, a scorpion died. Today this scorpion is a fossilized memory that was found in rocks from the Devonian Witteberg Group near Grahamstown. This species is now the oldest ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. It is a 350-million-year-old fossilized scorpion. A postdoctoral fellow from Wits ...

A postdoctoral fellow from Wits University has discovered the oldest known land-living animal from Gondwana in a remote part of the Eastern Cape. Dr Robert Gess, from the Evolutionary Studies ...