Does this mean that Ray Harryhausen was right when he did those scorpion things that Perseus fought in Clash of the Titans?

Why is everyone calling this thing a "creepy crawley"?

If I was an 8-foot long scorpion I'd tap-dance into the room smoking a Cuban cigar and singing "Zippity-doo-dah".

Be honest, what's anyone going to do about it?

Estimating the size of the whole animal from one claw seems a bit inaccurate to me.

What would they think if they saw the claw of a fiddler crab.

How different is a scorpions claw to a lobsters claw? might it not be a huge lobster?!

... what scampi is!

Perhaps we could get that bloke from Jurassic Park to clone the beast so it can be used to guard government databases.

Perhaps a SQL Trigger?

If command$ = SQL.EXPORT then {

release(The_big_beastie_with_the_big_claws);

Do while screaming = TRUE { give_command("kill!Kill!Kill!") } ;

}

I know, I know....its just MY version of pseudo code... :)

Says who?

It's a giant fossil, surely what it probably ate is a matter of speculation?

btw lol Doug, maybe if they had used one of these as a courier instead of the internal mail then "two compact discs containing names, addresses, dates of birth, child benefit numbers, National Insurance numbers and bank or building society account details of some 25 million individuals and 7.25 million families" WOULD NOT "have gone missing" (source - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7093757,00.html)

Would it be scampi? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scampi

If so, then maybe the claw they've discovered could be considered as a form of Super-Scampi?

Mmm.. super scampi! Now the pertinent scientific questions are:

a) "Was it any good?"

b) "Is there any left?"

@Jonathan Richards... heheh! .. coat, surely?

err, excuse me for a second.....I think I'm on the wrong site.

These comments are the most pitiful attempts at humour I've ever witnessed.

...do you get chips with that?