Megarachne the Giant Spider that Turned Out to be a Sea Scorpion

In 1980 the discovery of the largest spider that ever lived was announced and this new big spider was named megarachne. However, 20 years later it was found to not be a spider at all and was actually from a now extinct and ancient lineage of creatures called eurypterids. But this arguabley means that this creatures evolutionary history is even more fascinating because it lived almost 100 million years after the eurypterids had their hay day and looked very different from these creatures.

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Sources:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1629066/
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718202232/http://fossilinsects.net/pdfs/tetlie_2007_PX3_DistribDispersalEurypterida.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233444798_The_systematics_and_phylogeny_of_the_Stylonurina_Arthropoda_Chelicerata_Eurypterida
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VThUUUtM8A4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Benton+2005+%22%27Vertebrate+Palaeontology%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wUDVVI6IO8fQmAW44YKoDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

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