A handout image released in London November 21, 2007 shows a sea scorpion, a creature living before the age of dinosaurs. Scientists have found the fossilised claw of a 2.5-metre (8-foot) sea scorpion, a nightmarish creature living before the age of dinosaurs. The discovery of the 390-million-year-old specimen in a German quarry suggests that prehistoric spiders, insects, crabs and similar animals were much larger than previously thought, researchers at Britain's Bristol University said on Wednesday.

(Chinadaily.com.cn via agencies November 22, 2007)