Fossils

Prehistoric Life

【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】Birkenia – A Small Fish Drawn Upside Down for Twenty-Five Years After It Was Named

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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 Silurian】Guiyu – The Oldest Complete Bony Fish Had Spines on Its Fins and Armor on Its Hips

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Parasaurolophus – The Dinosaur Whose Crest Was a Wind Instrument, Its Call Rebuilt from CT Scans

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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】Halysites – Found During a Student’s Thesis Fieldwork, the First Evidence of Japan’s Silurian

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【Life of the Silurian】Entelognathus – A Placoderm with the Same Jaw Bones as Ours

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【Life of the Silurian】Eurypterus – Thousands of Fossils, Almost All of Them Molted Shells

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【Life of the Ordovician】Starfish – The Animal That Lost Its Trunk and Crawls the Seafloor as a Head

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【Life of the Ordovician】Graptolites – The “Writing on the Rocks” Is Still Alive on the Seafloor

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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】Lingula – Only the Shell Shape Stayed the Same for 500 Million Years

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【Life of the Jurassic】Stegosaurus – A Walnut-Sized Brain and the Misunderstanding Born from a Cavity in Its Hips

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【Life of the Ordovician】Sacabambaspis – The “Terrible Reconstruction” Was Faithful to the Fossil

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【Life of the Ordovician】Cameroceras – The 9-Meter Giant Was a Rumor About a Different Genus

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【Life of the Ordovician】Horseshoe Crab – A 445-Million-Year-Old Fossil That Already Looked Like Today’s

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Ankylosaurus – The First Restoration Had No Tail Club

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Triceratops – Was Torosaurus Just an Old Triceratops?

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Velociraptor – The Movie Raptor Was a Different Dinosaur

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Spinosaurus – Its Bones Lost to an Air Raid, Its True Shape Still Unsettled

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【Life of the Cretaceous】Tyrannosaurus – Named Three Times, and the Newest Name Stuck

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

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【Life of the Ordovician】Nautilus – A New Ancient Creature Driven into the Deep

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【Life of the Ordovician】Isotelus – At 72 cm, the Largest Trilobite Lived in Tropical Shallows