Prehistoric Life Fossils
Prehistoric Life 
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cretaceous】Elasmosaurus – A Neck of 72 Vertebrae That Was First Reconstructed as a Tail
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Jurassic】Megalosaurus – The First Dinosaur Bone Ever Illustrated Was Taken for a Giant’s Thigh
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Jurassic】Ichthyosaurus – The First Complete Skeleton, Lost in an Air Raid, Was Found Again in Plaster
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cretaceous】Protoceratops – The Dinosaur Said to Have Inspired the Griffin Lay Too Far From the Gold
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Permian】Helicoprion – A Spiral of Teeth That Went Without a Home for More Than a Century
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cretaceous】Quetzalcoatlus – The Pterosaur Thought Too Big to Fly Leapt Into the Sky
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Carboniferous】Meganeura – The Giant Dragonfly Darting Through Forests Did Not Fit Its Wings
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Jurassic】Archaeopteryx – The Fossil Whose Feathers Were Called Forgeries Was Cleared by Cracks and Mineral Patterns
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Neogene】Megalodon – Its Length Has Been Measured With a Borrowed Great White Body
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cretaceous】Iguanodon – The Nose Horn Was a Thumb: An Early Dinosaur That Kept Being Redrawn
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Jurassic】Brontosaurus – The Dinosaur Said Never to Have Existed Got Its Name Back After 112 Years
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Permian】Dimetrodon – Was Its Sail a Temperature Regulator? Slicing Into the Bones Shook the Answer
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Paleogene】Titanoboa – Working Out the Heat of the Ancient Tropics From a 13-Meter Snake
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Quaternary】Naumann’s Elephant – Re-dating the Last Fossils Moved Its Extinction 10,000 Years Earlier
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Quaternary】Metasequoia – Named From Fossils, Then Found Alive in a Chinese Mountain Village
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Carboniferous】Megarachne – The “Largest Spider Ever” Was a Sea Scorpion All Along
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cretaceous】Futabasaurus – A Plesiosaur Found by a High School Student Waited 38 Years for Its Name
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Jurassic】Allosaurus – Injury-Scarred “Big Al” Turned Out to Be a Different Species
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Devonian】Lungfish – The Cocoon It Sleeps In Through Droughts Is Made of Living Cells
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cambrian】Hurdia – Named as a Crustacean Shell, Assembled Into One Animal 97 Years Later
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Cambrian】Titanokorys – Mostly Head: The “Swimming Head” That Raked the Seafloor Mud
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Devonian】Brontoscorpio – The Largest Scorpion Ever Known Carries a Name Given to a Woodlouse
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Devonian】Coelacanth – The “Extinct” Fish That Comoros Fishermen Caught Every Year
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Devonian】Jaekelopterus – The “Largest Arthropod Ever” Was Sized From a Single Claw
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Devonian】Dunkleosteus – Why the “10-Meter” Armored Fish Shrank to Three or Four
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Jurassic】Brachiosaurus – Its Namer Called It a Land Animal, Yet It Spent Half a Century Sunk in Lakes
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Devonian】Tiktaalik – The Fish Found by Working Out Where It Had to Be
Prehistoric Life 【Life of the Silurian】Cooksonia – The Name of the “First Land Plant” Does Not Refer to a Single Plant
Prehistoric Life