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CT Technology Shows Extinct Sea Scorpions Could Breathe Out of Water – Imaging Technology News
September 11, 2020 — Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West Virginia University geologist concludes that these largely aquatic extinct arthropods breathed air on land. And now thanks to current co…
September 11, 2020 Scientists have long debated the respiratory workings of sea scorpions, but a new discovery by a West Virginia University geologist concludes that these largely aquatic extinct arthropods breathed air on land. And now thanks to current computed tomography (CT) technology, they know more about this extinct sporpion.
James Lamsdell dug into the curious case of a 340 million-year-old sea scorpion, or eurypterid, originally from France that had been preserved at a Glasgow, Scotl…
