Scorpion Tech!

[dvandom]

300 Million year old sea scorpions may have used the shells of the dead as crude breathing aids while venturing onto land. Clearly, only the Permian-Triassic extinction saved the world from domination by Scorpio Sapiens. (Link via bbaugh's twitter feed to his facebook.)

Comments

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

That's going to get the whole 'only endotherms demonstrate tool use' crowd in an uproar. Of course, those are the people who when you explain how you saw a wasp use a pebble as a hammer tell you you're a liar even when it's doing it right in front of you...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

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