Here I hope to compile I list of eurypterid-related occurences in the media. If you have any links to media articles that are not listed here please let me know.

On the BBC:

Ancient sea monsters bite back - article marking the creation of BBC's 'Sea Monsters', with a section on eurypterids.

Rock marks record water scorpion - the discovery in Scotland of a trackway probably produced by Hibbertopterus.

Scariest spider 'really a crab' - the reclassification of the largest spider, Megarachne servinei, as a hibbertopteroid eurypterid.

Giant sea scorpion claw unearthed - the discovery of a chelicera of Jaekelopterus rheninae, indicating it could have reached up to 2.5 m in length.

'Gigantic scorpion' fossil found in Fife - actually a story about how the trackway of Hibbertopterus found in 2005 is to be moulded in silicone.

Elsewhere:

Biggest Spider In The World - NOT! - Sciene Daily article on the reclassification of Megarachne.

Giant fossil sea scorpion - University of Bristol press release for the Jaekelopterus chelicera.

Giant claw points to monster sea scorpion - New Scientist article on Jaekelopterus.

Giant Claw Of Sea-Scorpion 'Monster' Found - Sky News article on Jaekelopterus.

German Scientist Discovers Fossil of Giant Sea Scorpion Claw - German interest piece on the discovery of the Jaekelopterus specimen by Markus Poschmann.

Giant Fossil Sea Scorpion Bigger Than Man - Science Daily article on Jaekelopterus.

Giant sea scorpion's claw found - ITN news article on Jaekelopterus.

Giant claw points to sea monster - Cosmos Jaekelopterus article.

Giant sea-scorpion claw discovered - Channel 4 News article regarding Jaekelopterus.

Giant Ancient Sea Scorpion - Popular Science Blog post on Jaekelopterus.

Claws! Giant Sea Scorpion of the Devonian - Everything Dinosaur with its article on the Jaekelopterus find.

Giant fossil sea scorpion bigger than man - Physorg on Jaekelopterus.

Long before Jaws, an 8ft prawn with killer claws feasted on hapless prey - Times newspaper article on Jaekelopterus.

Fossil sea scorpion revealed as ancestor of giant sweep-feeders - University of Bristol article on Drepanopterus, shown to be an early sweep-feeder.

Why giant sea scorpions got so big - University of Bristol press release for the reevalution of Romer's theory.

Battle of the bulge between armoured fish and the sea scorpions - Times newspaper article on eurypterid and placoderm competition. Not bad, bar for classifying Dunkleosteus as a eurypterid.

Why giant sea scorpions got so big - Insciences on eurypterid competition.

Morský superškorpión mal tri metre. Dôvodom bol boj o potravu - Slovakian website picks up the eurypterid/fish competition story.

Why giant sea scorpions got so big - Greg Laden's blog looks at eurypterid/fish evolution from the reevaluation of Romer's theory.

Wielkie z róznych powodów - Polish site also picks up the Romer's theory story.

‘Gigantic’ scorpion fossil found in Fife - Telegraph story about the cast being made of the Hibbertopterus trackway.

Glacial silt encased some of Earth's best-preserved fossils - Story about the method of preservation of the Soom Shale Lagerstatte.

Unexpected exoskeleton remnants found in Paleozoic fossils - Reporting the discovery of trace molecules in the cuticle of a Silurian eurypterid and Carboniferous scorpion.

On Youtube:

Sea Monsters - Megalograptus - from the BBC, focuses on Megalograptus and the mass-moult-mate theory.

Animal Armageddon - Megalograptus - part of a series run on Animal Planet regarding mass extinctions. Features massively oversized Megalograptus attacking orthocone nautiloids. It is, in all honesty, pretty dire.

Walking With Monsters - Brontoscorpio/Pterygotus - from the BBC, sections on the scorpion Brontoscorpio (known only from a single moveable chelae) and Pterygotus. The reconstruction of Pterygotus appears rather megalograptoid in places - particularly the carapace (lateral eyes and epistomal sutures) and opisthosoma (preabdominal differentiation) - but overall looks quite impressive. I don't believe there is any evidence for parental care in eurypterids, however I'm pretty sure the idea came from the Eurypterus and Dolichopterus specimens preserved on the same slab as Frankenstein.

 

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