Devonian

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【Life of the Devonian】Materpiscis – The Oldest Known Mother, an Armored Fish Carrying an Embryo on an Umbilical Cord

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【Life of the Devonian】Lungfish – The Cocoon It Sleeps In Through Droughts Is Made of Living Cells

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【Life of the Devonian】Brontoscorpio – The Largest Scorpion Ever Known Carries a Name Given to a Woodlouse

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【Life of the Devonian】Coelacanth – The “Extinct” Fish That Comoros Fishermen Caught Every Year

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【Life of the Devonian】Jaekelopterus – The “Largest Arthropod Ever” Was Sized From a Single Claw

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【Life of the Devonian】Dunkleosteus – Why the “10-Meter” Armored Fish Shrank to Three or Four

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【Life of the Devonian】Tiktaalik – The Fish Found by Working Out Where It Had to Be

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【Life of the Silurian】Cooksonia – The Name of the “First Land Plant” Does Not Refer to a Single Plant

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【Life of the Devonian】Prototaxites – The 8-Meter Column That Was Neither Tree, Seaweed nor Mushroom

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【Life of the Silurian】Pneumodesmus – Whether It Is the Oldest Air-Breathing Animal Still Depends on the Age of the Rock

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【Life of the Silurian】Baragwanathia – A Plant So Advanced Its Age Was Doubted for Over Half a Century

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【Life of the Devonian】Pterygotus – The Giant Sea Scorpion Named as a “Winged Fish”

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【Life of the Silurian】Favosites – The Honeycomb That Measured Earth’s Spin with a Hand Lens

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【Life of the Ordovician】Orthoceras – The Cephalopod Whose Name Traveled Farther Than It Did

Earth Timeline

【Earth Timeline 07】The Devonian Period – How Fins Became Legs