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Paleontologists Discovered a Rare 4-Inch Scorpion Fossil Preserved in Rock in China

What if a 125-million-year-old scorpion had been hiding in China's fossil beds all along? Scientists just found something unexpected. Paleontologists have uncovered the fossil of a new scorpion species, Jeholia longchengi, in China’s famous Yixian Formation. Dating back about 125 million years to the Early Cretaceous period, this marks the first Mesozoic scorpion ever found in Chin... [2555 chars]

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