Amphibious Scorpions?
Not that it probably matters in movies of this "quality", but was there ever an explanation given to explain how scorpions can suddenly become amphibious?🐭
shareScorpions did not suddenly become amphibious, not in really life or in this movie. The ancestors of the modern day scorpion were giant and amphibious. Long before anything like dinosaurs. They first appeared around 430 million years ago. In the movie, the scientist clearly states that she thinks the creature is a mixopterus. They were around 417 million years ago. Modern day scorpions can't breathe underwater but many can hold their breath underwater for an astonishingly long time.
shareTrue but the earliest ones didn't have stingers so evolution in action.Also it is only in water that they could get to such a size.Holding breath also negates the "Its my nature" story.
shareThey had spiked tails, we just have no way (yet) of proving whether they were capable of producing or injecting venom. The spike was likely used as a weapon. It's becoming accepted that they likely had a venom. This is from looking at the structure of the spike and tail.
As it has been 417m years, it's likely that a complex creature like that would have evolved significantly. There's also the fact that we've by no means discovered every arthropod fossil that ever existed, so it could be a later species related to mix which we previously didn't know about.
Of course the movie was utter *beep* if they claimed that the scorpion was a modern one who fell in a vat if glysophate and instantly grew to that size, they could say that. It's not in any way bound by reality.