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Heathen Dawn · 08-13-2003, 04:27 AM

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Originally posted by pz
I find the little parenthetical summaries of these blocks of time to be misleading and annoying...

(this is ex-"emotional")

I'm sorry. I'm just a layman in geology and biology, and I wanted to write down the highlights that seemed most appropriate to me. Feel free to change the summaries or delete them outright.

Non-praying Mantis · 08-13-2003, 05:04 AM

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Originally posted by JaeIsGod
Which period had the smallest bugs?Esp. spiders.

IIRC, the Devonian is when animals first crawled out onto land, including spiders and scorpions and centipedes.

NPM

View Poll Results: Which geological period interests you most?
Precambrian (beginning of life)	16	25.81%
Palaeozoic (the explosion of life)	19	30.65%
Mesozoic (dinosaurs, yay!)	9	14.52%
Tertiary (flowering of the mammals)	9	14.52%
Quarternary (humans get to dominate)	5	8.06%
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