And yet we still hear ALL the time this outdated idea that arthropods, or worse, all pre-Cenozoic animals were "bigger because of more atmospheric oxygen". We need more popular content creators and TV shows dismantling this view.
Amypteride🏳️⚧️🔻🕷🦂And of course, the 2026 revision's conclusion are bringing A LOT of new thoughts in scorpions' evolution: how we need to rethink size evolution among arthropods, how early scorpions were extremely different animals in terms of ecology, etc etc #Cheliceratime 5/6