Paleo Encyclopedia

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Jurassic】Brachiosaurus – Its Namer Called It a Land Animal, Yet It Spent Half a Century Sunk in Lakes

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

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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】Sacabambaspis – The “Terrible Reconstruction” Was Faithful to the Fossil

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

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