Paleozoic

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Carboniferous】Cockroaches – Said to Be Unchanged for 300 Million Years, the Carboniferous Ones Were a Different Lineage With a Long Egg-Laying Tube

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【Life of the Permian】Mesosaurus – The Oldest Amniote Embryos Were Inside the Mothers of a Reptile That Went Back to the Water

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Carboniferous】Lepidodendron – The Bark That Fills the Coal Was Usually Less Than 5 cm Thick on the Living Tree

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【Life of the Permian】Fusulinids – Rice-Grain Shells of Single Cells Revealed That Akiyoshidai Was Upside Down

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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 Permian】Glossopteris – The Tongue-Shaped Leaf Scott’s Party Hauled to the End

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Tully Monster – Seventy Years On, No One Knows if It Was a Vertebrate

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【Life of the Permian】Diplocaulus – Its Boomerang Head Was Measured as a Wing in a Wind Tunnel

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【Life of the Permian】Helicoprion – A Spiral of Teeth That Went Without a Home for More Than a Century

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【Life of the Carboniferous】Megarachne – The “Largest Spider Ever” Was a Sea Scorpion All Along

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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】Cameroceras – The 9-Meter Giant Was a Rumor About a Different Genus

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【Life of the Cambrian】Trilobites – Eyes With Lenses Made of Calcite Crystal

Earth Timeline

Earth Timeline Series – Index

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【Earth Timeline 04】The Cambrian Period – When the Blueprints of Animal Bodies Came Together

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【Earth Timeline 05】The Ordovician Period – Reef-Filled Seas and an Ending Locked in Ice

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【Earth Timeline 06】The Silurian Period – When Plants Came Ashore

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

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【Earth Timeline 08】The Carboniferous Period – Giant Insects and Oxygen-Rich Forests

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【Earth Timeline 09-1】The Permian Period – When the Continents Became One

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【Earth Timeline 09-2】The Permian Period – The Greatest Extinction in History