The Monster From Fife

A six-legged scorpion about two metres long and one metre wide, leaving tracks of which a cast is being made,  has been found in Fife.  The tracks were left as it crawled over  sand.  Scottish Natural Heritage  described the find as unique and internationally important because the creature is gigantic.

It is to be be moulded in silicone so that more people can see and research it.  Richard Batchelor from Geoheritage Fife, said:

"Removing it and housing it in a museum would be prohibitively costly but moulding it in silicone rubber and making copies for educational and research purposes means that we can still see and research this huge creature's tracks in years to come."

This artist's impression, released today, is of the creature under medication.