{"id":623709,"date":"2026-06-06T02:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623709\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:25:12","slug":"worlds-largest-scorpion-roamed-uk-400-million-years-ago-says-expert-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/623709\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#039;s largest scorpion roamed UK 400 million years ago, says expert &#8211; BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE9EMUkybnN0TVF4Qkd3ZHBMR1hyM3E1SmVCREJTdWd6aDRPb0J6ZFlCUks4OU9aS0dJQ2xWdnpWWXJ0UFZleXR0c2FPa3ZnMVV6cnFqcjhSMWRCZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World&#8217;s largest scorpion roamed UK 400 million years ago, says expert<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxPNEY2a2UxbGZLR0lYNmVsY1JkMmgzLXlYeV9BckU1RkpJWkp5SXFiWVJRaEVHeVlGRzdjb3hOZXBvQWJCQzBnel9EaDMxbXhEQUc0TmE4b2ZNNXlNZWJZeWwzUzVaRVdUZ0ZZYzNRdkdYOU9vdnpZZDc2WTFXa09vb3c3SVlWSlFmT0Y3MnJQUXdSczBMdGoxY0RFYTU3VGFpRXZJMWtRUFltR3lObmY2R1ln?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World\u2019s largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural History Museum<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxQU2NBdmJYN0xxOHJsZE9qQ3g0VXc2ZVZjTWdjcFpST2VWUlc0MVZISGltM3J3dzRiVzJncElZQ2thRTM4WWV1S2Q0S0ZVV2NzcDdjUWt3SGZQVVBIdUFxVkQtUUpZdVJpS2dkeEQwSk5NTnk5UHYyV3QtT3NncEMyTHNfekZnN0pWMGJMUXU0bU1YdVZuaWpj?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gigantic scorpions with formidable pincers once roamed England and Wales, fossil reveals<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMibEFVX3lxTE9XUjRWdVU5Zk9KdkZSZE9CdjVndTFsX25NN183QUtkbUY0SEVTV3phNkVGTU1mZ2Q1RTNfWDBCN29vS2tPMmpHSjQ3dVZnWHQzVVdxdVdZV3FXQnlJTzZMOWxWdEZTR3VKcldRdQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World\u2019s biggest scorpions were the size of baseball bats<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Popular Science<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxNTWJXcHdpTVhVcjRDTjhzNzYyTm1zbkpOSkR3eGtoTnoycUZWdk8wTE9WdE1wNm13dGpkUW5UVUF4R3NISVBEdm9SdnYzWDBEdXdWTXJoWFdLVHhHSWxLUGtmdmg4VndSdVltTVB5dlBOR3haWXdBQTNUdzFkWm80b1pIRU1mRkM4Q0Vkb3JvVy1nOEVaRUxUelNGbHlKYkZMQm10TWxTXzU1VEE?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World\u2019s largest scorpion revealed from 415-million-year-old fossils<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The University of Manchester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s largest scorpion roamed UK 400 million years ago, says expert&nbsp;&nbsp;BBCWorld\u2019s largest scorpion revealed by 415-million-year-old fossils&nbsp;&nbsp;Natural History&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-623709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}