{"id":3385,"date":"2022-05-07T10:27:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T10:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2022-05-12T12:23:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:23:37","slug":"these-photos-are-not-of-a-real-extinct-giant-sea-scorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srilanka.factcrescendo.com\/english\/these-photos-are-not-of-a-real-extinct-giant-sea-scorpion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes of a Giant Extinct Sea Scorpion found in Australia? Find Out the Truth\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Claims related to discovery of species which are said to have been extinct often garner a lot of interest among many nature lovers. However, there are many misleading social media posts also, related to such rare findings. This is our investigation on such a claim related to a giant sea scorpion, said to have been extinct millions of years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social Media Claims<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Claims of rare discovery of a giant extinct sea scorpion, which could grow up to 2 meters in length, was shared by social media users as seen below<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facebook<\/a> | Archived<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is another narration of this unbelievable claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Facebook<\/a> | Archived<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can a species said to have been extinct millions of years ago, survive this long? We decided to do an investigation on this bizarre claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fact Check<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We did a reverse image search and were able to find that the photos were taken from a documentary series of BBC. The clip of the film was published in 2010 in a BBC website, named as the \u201cAncient Sea Scorpion\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reveals that the video is a graphic recreation about the formidable claw action of a grotesque aquatic predator. So, it`s clear that the images viral on social media are not  depicting a real scorpion and only a graphic recreation of a unique species from prehistoric age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BBC<\/a> | Archived<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The video is an episode of the documentary, \u201cSea Monsters\u201d: a part of documentary series \u201cWalking with Dinosaurs\u201d. Nigel Marven<\/a> was the presenter of this award winning \u201cSea Monsters\u201d TV series while Karen Hayley was the narrator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Wildlife presenter Nigel Marven was acting as a time travelling zoologist in Sea Monsters documentary series in which he tries to recreate scenes of the most dangerous seas filled with ancient sea predators. The giant sea scorpion was one of the few such species that were created from computer generated imagery and animatronics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The production of the documentary took around 7 months and the locations were mainly around the oceans near to New Zealand and Egypt`s red sea. Marven’s enthusiasm over oceans and experience of swimming with large sharks was one of the reasons that he was selected as a presenter by Jasper James, the director of \u201cSea Monsters\u201d documentary. More details about this can be taken from here<\/a>. Archived<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Sea Monsters was created by production team Impossible Pictures<\/a> while the animatronics for sea animals were created by Crawley Creatures<\/a> and Visual Effects were done by Framestore<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cSea Monsters\u201d documentary was created in 2003 and production team Impossible Pictures produced in cooperation with BBC. This is how Impossible Pictures talked about the \u201cSea Monsters\u201d series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Impossible Pictures<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to create animatronics of ancient animals ? Below is a video explaining the basics of unique, life-like creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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