Silurian Scorpion

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This article's title is a nickname, based upon conjecture or similar. The correct title is unknown.


Scientific name	Unknown
Home era	Silurian
Creature type	Arachnid, probably a eurypterid
Deaths caused	Leek's Mercenary 1 Leek's Mercenary 2 The Cleaner Music Playing Man Father on Beach Stephen Hart (Discounting the other creatures).
Appearances	Episode 2.5 Episode 2.6 Episode 2.7

"We think it's a Silurian Scorpion"

―James Lester telling Stephen

A Silurian Scorpion is a giant arachnid from the Silurian.

1 In Primeval
- 1.1 Episode 2.5
- 1.2 Episode 2.6/Episode 2.7
2 Biology
3 Trivia
4 Errors
5 Gallery
6 External Links

In PrimevalEdit

Episode 2.5Edit

An anomaly opens up in a Worksite in 2007 and Leek sends his mercenaries led by the Cleaner to capture creatures for his army before the ARC come to investigate.

However, one of the Scorpions detects them through the vibrations from their footsteps on the sand, and attacks, killing two and injuring the Cleaner.

Later, when Nick and Stephen arrive through the anomaly, they are chased by two Scorpions, but when the two find safety on some rocks, the Scorpions lose track of them and give up the chase.

Later again, when Taylor falls on a sand dune, a Scorpion attacks the trio, dragging Stephen beneath the sand. In an attempt to save Stephen, Taylor stomps on the sand. The powerful vibrations cause the Scorpion to surface with Stephen caught in its mandibles, along with another, smaller Scorpion. The two Scorpions fight over their meal, allowing the trio to escape. The larger Scorpio defeats the smaller Scorpion and follows the trio to the bottom of the dune. However, they are able to escape through an anomaly back to the present before the Scorpion can reach them, ending the chase. (Episode 2.5)

Episode 2.6/Episode 2.7Edit

Oliver Leek has three Scorpions in his collection presumably caught via the Lost World Adventure Park anomaly. While two were kept in the Creature Prison, Leek releases one into a popular beach where it attacks and kills two and men. Stephen defeats it when he draws it to the surface and traps it by a harpoon tipped rope to a pier.

The other two Scorpions were presumably killed when them and the other creatures were lured to a locked room in which they all killed each other.

BiologyEdit

From what is seen on the show, Silurian Scorpions appear to prefer to stay in the sand. They track prey on the surface by the vibrations they make on the sand. It seems that Scorpions prefer to home in on the prey that's making the vibrations, come up under them and drag them down under the sand to be eaten, though they are shown to sometimes just come up onto the surface to chase and eat the prey.

TriviaEdit

This is the eighth largest creature in the series.
While the Scorpions seen in Episode 2.5 were approximately 25 feet long, the ones seen in Episode 2.6 and 2.7 were not much bigger than a full-grown man. Perhaps Leek's men were only able to capture the smaller ones as they would be less dangerous plus the bigger one's couldn't fit through either anomaly to the Silurian that were shown.
The concept of scorpions dragging victims in the sand by sensing vibrations and preferring to stay in the sand is similar to the Graboids in Tremors.
The scorpions' attack strategy maybe a reference to Scorponok from the 2007 Transformers movie.
The Silurian Scorpion resembles the Vinagaroon Whip Scorpion.

ErrorsEdit

Scorpions of that size wouldn't have been able to breathe properly in the Silurian and would have been crushed by gravity. This also because a major lack of plants in the Silurian leads to a small amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. An arthropod's lungs need a higher amount of oxygen the bigger the creature grows. To get to the size of the Giant scorpion the air would need to be at least 30%-40% Oxygen in the atmosphere.The desert had simple land plants but there were no land animals. The silurian is known for giant scorpions which did exist, yet only in the sea and only 9 feet long such as Pterygotus ,although they were known to have came out of water for only a limited time.