Silurian

Prehistoric Life

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

Prehistoric Life

【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 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

Prehistoric Life

【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】Orthoceras – The Cephalopod Whose Name Traveled Farther Than It Did

Earth Timeline

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