Re: insects - not! (OT)

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

> You mean of course ARACHNIDS. Spiders aren't insects. Arthropod would
> have done though (since it's much nore inclusive).
>
> There was a time when the biggest spider was thought to have been as
> large as a dog - until it was found that the fossil was actually of a
> crustacean.

Insect is to arachnidan what crustacean is to eurypterid. *Megarachne* is a 
eurypterid... some think this means it was a genuine stem-group scorpion, 
but in any case it was close to spiders, scorpions and the like.