It includes a fossilised pincer as well as part of the tail and sting from a species of 360 million-year-old scorpions, news 24 reported.
They lived during a geological period known as the Devonian.
The small, predatory creatures, which would have snacked on the world's first primitive insects and millipedes, were almost the length of a modern-day pencil.
The specie is dubbed Gondwanascorpio emsantsiensis by its discoverer Dr Robert Gess, a researcher at the time with the Bernard Price Institute of Palaeontological Research.
The tiny fossils were found compressed between layers of shale taken from a road cutting near Grahamstown.
The research has been published in the scientific journal, African Invertebrates.
--ANI (Posted on 30-08-2013)