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Bloody big scorpion found!

I'd just started reading Arthur C. Clarke's 1986 novel "The Songs of Distant Earth" when I saw the headline for this on CNN, as if it was a brand new discovery.
I got to the chapter "Scorp" on page 151...

Loren stood with Brant Falconer at the edge of the pool, looking down through a break in the matted raft of marine vegetation. The creature eating the kelp was built on the same general plan as a terrestrial lobster — but was more than twice the size of a man. ...
That sparked a flash of déjà vu, "Hey! Didn't I just see some'n on CNN..."
Then, half a page later...
"Science Officer Varley has been checking the records. She tells me that there was something very much like this on Earth millions of years ago. The paleontologists gave it a good name — sea scorpion. Those ancient oceans must have been exciting places."
Kind of a cool coincidence for me to be reading that book just then, huh?
 
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