In South Africa, found the remains of a prehistoric scorpion
Fossilized remains of scorpion that lived on Earth 350 million years ago, scientists have been found in present-day South Africa. According to experts, this finding points to the oldest known inhabitants of the now defunct supercontinent of Gondwana. new species was named Gondwanascorpio emzantsiensis, scientists say that by studying it, they will be able to say more about how animals evolved superkonitenente even before it split on the part of the existing continents.
Recall that modern science believes that as a result of Gondwana split tectonic processes, which ultimately led to the emergence of Australia, Africa and South America, as well as on the part of the other, more northern, the supercontinent Pangaea. Until now, paleontologists have found a fossilized fragments of the remains of the inhabitants of Pangaea, or rather that part of it which is now North America.
"We did not have any evidence that Gondwana at that time was inhabited land animals," - says Robert Hess, one of the authors of the study, an evolutionary biologist at the University Wits. Hess says that the remains of a prehistoric scorpion were found near the South African city Gremstaun. According to scientists, the scorpion lived on Earth at the end of the Silurian geologic period when the scorpions, spiders and small lizards eat insects just as other animals on land almost was not.
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