According to Polis (1990), the following species can be found in and around the littoral zones:
Opistophthalmus litoralis
Centruroides exilicauda
Mesobuthus martensi
Euscorpius carpathicus
Vaejovis littoralis
He does mention, however, that there are at least ten species representing four families. It should be noted that at least some of the listed species are not exclusively associated with tidal zones. Even for the ones that are, I have no idea if they are any better at "swimming" than other species. It should also be noted that Euscorpius has undergone a major revision since the book was published and E.carpathicus was split, if I remember correctly.
yeah would kinda be cool unless you liked swimmin some of the other monsters about were massive in that period megladon is it was like 65 foot shark :/
Mmmm although those scorps don't look exactly like the scorps we keep :E
look more like a giant flat shrimp/lobster if that makes any sense :E In uk there was a program going though dif periods when the dinosaurs were about but it was just about the ocean life during those periods was a very good series.
well now imagine if any of those tagged one of us. a stinger the size of my finger. like some jack hammer coming through my finger. set one of those puppies in my backyard. feed them fish and cats. show no mercy.
Thank everyone for the great inputs, particularly skinheaddave who made me look into those species living close to littoral zones.
While modern scorpions dont seem physically capable of swimming, scorpions are also living creatures.
Famed paleontologist and artist Gregory S. Paul always reminds us that living creatures can always achieve something beyond the boundary of our current understanding of biomechanics. A few simplified equations alone cannot exclude the possibility of a fast running T. rex. This statement is very true - like scorpions, elephants dont seem to be swimmers at all - yet they are good swimmers!
To illustrate how creatures can achieve something beyond our imagination, I think the following link to a story with my recorded video files after a quest of searching rare arachnids from China are anything beyond your imagination:
Someone once proved that bumblebees can't fly. They obviously can. It eventually turned out that they had overlooked a couple factors, including the actual path that the wings take. It can now be shown through physics that bumblebees can fly -- something any gradeschooler will tell you.
I've never seen one actually swim, but I have found several C. exilicauda under river rocks just a few feet from the water at Bartlett Lake (Scottsdale AZ).
the discovery channel aired a documentary on prehistoric deadly oceans, and one of the seas mentioned was inhabited by aquatic creatures known as sea scorpions. It was really cool, i think that there might be a video of it somewhere.
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