PREHISTORIC BUGS VS EVERYDAY BUGS

EURYPTERID (PREHISTORIC SCORPION)

• Eurypterids were in the arthropod family.
• Eurypterid's name was from Greek.
• One part of Eurypterid's name means broad/wide the other part means ptera which means wing.
• They lived in lakes and seas.
• They can grow up to a max of 2.5 meters (8ft 2in).
• They are not considered true scorpions.
• They went extinct 252.17 million years ago.

SCORPIONS

• They can grow 0.3in to 9in.
• 25of the 1,750 species can kill humans.
• They have 13 extinct families known to date.
• The most harmful species are found in Western Asia, South America, and Africa.

ARTHROPLEURA

• The largest species of the genus are the largest known invertebrates.
• They can be 0.3 to 2.3 meters and a width of 50cm.
• They are herbivories.(They only eat plants)
• They became extinct in the Carboniferous period.When it became drying out.

CENTIPEDE

• They can grow up to 1foot.
• They can have 30 to 354 legs.
• They are known to be highly venomous.
• 8,000 are thought to exist 3,000 have been discribed.
• They can have 10 to 50 babies.