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1 sapiens is YOU!
1 Zamites was a plant that had some palm and some pine features
1 WqsAysheia had lots of jointed
1 Without insects it
1 Whale is the largest mammal in the world today, yet lives on tiny creatures called krill.
1 WHAT EVERY AVIARY NEEDSForget the budgie
1 Volvox is a plant that joins up with others of its kind to form hollow round colonies.
1 Tyrannosaurus
1 Trilobite looked superficially like a big sea wood-louse. It had very good eyesight.
1 Triceratops had three horns
1 Triceratops completely displaced it
1 Thrinaxodon had small whisker pits on the side of its snout.
1 There were no insects to eat
1 There was nowhere to shelter from the cold
1 The upper atmosphere ison fire-it's hotter
1 The time period before 570M yrs ago is called the Pre-cambrian. We have only a skimpy knowledge of the Pre-cambrian, but.... The biggest hurdles in evolutionwere being jumped at this time. Complex chemicals were being formed and encased in membranes.When these chemicals could
1 The smaller quicker codreplaced it
1 The smaller millipedes were more adaptable
1 The small animals it hunted are extinct
1 The plants it lived on have disappeared
1 The modern deer
1 The later whales were better at diving
1 The later hawks
1 The later fish were better protected
1 The krill & diatoms it eats no longer exist
1 The ice-cap melted and the floods came
1 The heat left no escape
1 The heat got too much for it
1 The heat changed its habitat to desert
1 The forest caught fire
1 The fish it lived on disappeared
1 The fish it fed on
1 The dinosaurs it ate had dwindled
1 The deer it depended onno longer exist
1 Tarsier has huge eyes and
1 Stegosaurus had plates on its back. Blood flowing through
1 Starfish have five arms, each with many tiny suckers.
1 Spriggina was a primitive worm that had segments like an
1 Sponge is the simplest multi- celled animal. Each cell is the same as every other cell.
1 Spinosaurus ate other dinosaurs.It lived near a desert and had alarge sail to keep cool.
1 Spider spins webs.
1 Soup is a mixture of steam, carbon dioxide ,methane &ammonia.
1 Snail is a mollusc that moved onto the land.
1 Smilodon is more commonly known as the 'sabre-tooth' tiger.
1 Silverfish is a living insect. The first insects are thought tohave been very much like it.
1 Sheep provides wool.
1 Shark is a fish that is heavier than water and has to swim or sink!
1 Seymouria is an amphibian but was once thought to be a reptile
1 Sea-squirt is a creature whose larva has a rudimentary backbone
1 Scelidosaurus had a heavily- armoured body, and walked on four stout legs.
1 Saurolophus was a 'duck-billed' dinosaur. It had a crest on its head.
1 Rhynia grew to about 20cm high. It had no noticeable leaves.
1 Rex - the largest ever carnivore - weighing over 10 tonnes.
1 Ramapithecus had a flat face. It foraged for food on the
1 Purgatorius was probably like a modern tree-shrew although only its teeth have been found. *
1 Ptychocarpus was a fern that looked very much like those thatexist today.
1 Pterygotus was a eurypterid - a marine scorpion that grew to 3 metres long.
1 Pteranodon is the largest ever flying creature. It had a beak but no teeth and very tiny legs. 6'YZ/
1 Pteranodon drove it out
1 Proechinoid is an animal that has not yet been found but must have existed at one time.
1 Primordial
1 Press desired number (or "0" to do nothing)
1 Polyps build reefs.They use algae in their bodies to getcarbon to build their skeletons. Y
1 Podopteryx has a membrane
1 Parvigyps was a bird of prey. Itprobably had a mode of life likea vulture.
1 Paleomeryx inhabited marshy
1 Palaeophonus was a scorpion and is the first terrestrial animal we know about.
1 Osteolepis was a fish that had fewer bones on its fleshy fins.
1 Orthoceras had a straight shell with many air filled chambers in it so it could float.
1 Oreopithecus lived in a marshy environment. It was the size of a chimpanzee.
1 Oligopithecus was a tree dwellerIt had teeth adapted for chewingrather than gnawing.
1 Octopus is the cleverest animal without a spine. It is a molluscthat has lost its shell.
1 No insects are left to eat
1 Neopilina is a shelled worm
1 Necrolemur had eyes at the frontof its head. Its nose was
1 Nautilus has a spiral shell. Despite its shape it is an
1 NEED A NEW TOOTHBRUSH? If you had 15cm teeth like Tyrannosaurus you almost certainly would.
1 Monoclonius had a single horn onits snout. It ate plants and roamed in herds.
1 Moeritherium had incisors
1 Millipede has a lot of legs.... lot of legs .... lot of legs.
1 Miacis was a mammal that looked a bit like the modern weasel.
1 Meyeria is an early type of
1 Metamynodon was an extremely primitive rhinoceros that lived on aquatic plants.
1 Melanosaurus had a long body with a long neck and tail.
1 Megazostrodon was an egg laying,insect eating animal that lookedlike a shrew.
1 Meganeura was a dragonfly that had a wingspan of 60cm.
1 Megalosaurus was a carnosaur - ameat eater. It had serrated
1 Megalosaurus ate its food supply
1 Mammoth had enormous tusks and grew to be 5 metres tall.
1 Magnolia is a primitive flower. Its petals are arranged in
1 Lycaenops was a small reptile that had developed long legs.
1 Limulus is commonly known as thehorseshoe crab.
1 Lepidodendron was a giant "scaletree". (Its leaves were so densethey looked like reptile scales) 8
1 Lepidodendron absorbed its sunlight
1 Leedsia was a fish that grew to a length of 10 metres. Its
1 Later rhinoceri were larger & displaced it
1 Lancelet has a defined notocord (soft backbone). It can flex this and swim like a fish.
1 Jellyfish is a multi-celled
1 Its fish diet had died
1 It was no match for thereptiles
1 It was forced out by the bigger dinosaurs
1 It needed insects to feed on
1 It needed algae to helpbuild its skeleton
1 It had no herbivorous dinosaurs to hunt
1 It had no fruit or
1 It fed on other
1 It could not match the true birds
1 It could not compete with the new sharks
1 It could not compete with the cycads
1 It could not compete with Megazostrodon
1 It could not compete with Dicynodon
1 Iguanodon grew to 10 metres in length. It was a plant eater andlived in herds.
1 Icthyostega was the first
1 Icthyornis was a bird which
1 Hyracotherium is also known as Eohippus the 'dawn-horse'. Its toes had been reduced to three. (
1 Hylonomus is the first true
1 Huge solar flares are warming up the earth
1 Horse has hooves (all the toes are fused), so it can pick its feet up quickly.
1 Hipparion inhabited broad grass lands, roaming in herds. It had long legs and could run well. (
1 Hawk has incredibly good eye- sight.
1 Hallucigenia had 14 legs and 7 mouths. Need I say more!
1 Grass is a flowering plant that grows from its base, so eating its leaves will not kill it.
1 Gingko is also known as the
1 Flatworm breathes directly
1 Fabrosaurus was a large plant eater with muscular rear legs.
1 Eusthenopteron could gulp air to spend some time out of water.
1 Eustenopteron graduallytook over from it
1 Equisetum is better known as thehorsetail fern. It has leaves inwhorls around a fat central stem H8
1 Eogyrinus was a predator on
1 Elephant never forgets. Its
1 Elasmotherium was a large
1 Edaphosaurus had a 'sail' on itsback. This helped it control itstemperature.
1 Dust obscures the sun -the temperature drops
1 Dunkleostus was a fish with a heavily armoured 3 metre head and was an active predator.
1 Dunkleostus hunted it
1 Dog is the first animal known tohave been domesticated by man.
1 Do you want the easy game? Y/N
1 Diplovertebron had five distincttoes on each foot and a skull like a crocodile.
1 Diplodocus grew to 26 metres. It probably lived close to or inswamps.
1 Dinictis resembled a small
1 Dicynodon was a plant eater. It had teeth and a jaw adapted for chewing.
1 Diatryma was one of the 'Terror cranes'. It could not fly and stood 2 metres high.
1 Diatom is a microscopic single- celled plant that forms a major part of plankton.
1 Diacodex had lost the innermost toe on each foot. It was
1 Deer sprouts antlers, eats grassand lives in herds.
1 Dasyceps is the ancestor of the modern frog.
1 DO YOU KNOW THIS FACE? Triceratops is wanted for littering - leavingbones in Montana.
1 Cycad looks like a palm tree buthas seeds in what look like pinecones.
1 Cyanophyte has chlorophyll and can trap sunlight to get energy.It produces oxygen by this
1 Cow is a ruminant i.e. it
1 Cordaites produced pollen that fertilises the seeds while they are still on the tree.
1 Cooksonia is the first known land plant. It had spores ratherthan seeds (like ferns today). P
1 Coleophysis was a small reptile with well developed hind legs ideal for running.
1 Coelocanth is a fish that was long thought to be extinct but was rediscovered 50 years ago. K
1 Cod is typical of the type of fish alive today.
1 Cladoselache was a fish that hadcartilage instead of bone to make it more elastic.
1 Cladoselache ate it
1 Cladophorella is an alga that grows in filaments, looking likea plant stem.
1 Cheirolepis was a fish that had ray-shaped fins and a proper jaw.
1 Caytonia was a type of conifer that reached its peak in the Jurassic period.
1 Cat purrs a lot.
1 Calamites grew to over 10 metresIt had a single stem with leavescoming directly off it.
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1 Brontotherium was a large beast with a tiny brain. It lived in wet grasslands.
1 Brontosaurus was the heaviest ofthe dinosaurs.It needed a second'brain' to control its back legs -'ikM
1 Basilosaurus was a mammal that returned to the sea.
1 Baiera has broad fan shaped
1 Asteroxylon had obvious leaves and branched evenly although it only grew to about 10cm.
1 Asplenium is more commonly knownas the Bird's Nest fern and is often grown indoors.
1 Arthropleura can be described as a 2 metre long armoured worm.
1 Archaeopteryx was the first birdIts skeleton looked almost the same as its reptile ancestors. 6'
1 Araucaria is a primitive pine. We know it better as the monkey puzzle tree.
1 Ankylosaurus was built like a tank, and could simply lie flat to be protected.
1 Anatolepis is the first fish we know of. It had no jaw, like themodern lamprey.
1 Anaerobe does not need oxygen tosurvive but can get energy from other simple chemicals.
1 An earthquake caused vast devastation
1 Amoeba is a single celled animalthat has a proper nucleus and can swap genes.
1 Ammonites had tightly coiled air-filled shells so they could swim despite their size.
1 Alga has a separate cell- nucleus. You might see these as a "scum" on ponds etc.
1 Alepidophora is a primitive typeof bee.
1 Aerobe - by aerobe we should really say aerobic bacterium. Itneeds oxygen to live.
1 A massive eruption has destroyed its habitat
1 A heatwave lasted too long for it to survive
1 A comet affects earth'sorbit,making it colder
1 @<D@ 0<D<
1 ;A meteorite struck the earth
1 8likes itself the way itis and won't evolve
1 8is having it easy and doesn't want to evolve
1 8has no more descendantsat the moment
1 8can't evolve further under these conditions
1 8but you ran out of timeso clearly don't exist
1 8but then you quitted
1 8and you reached man-butdid you get his pets?
1 8and you ran out of
1 8and you killed off all life as we know it!
1 8The winds shifted & no rain fell
1 8It is now lost in the mists of time. . .
1 8Are you surprised?
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1 4BHKAPhenacodus lived in groups in wooded areas. It was about the size of a pig.
1 3A star went supernova close to Earth
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1 )It had got used to a warmer climate
1 (There are no insects topollinate it
1 (Oreopithecus completelyreplaced it
1 (No small amphibians areleft to eat
1 (Later herd animals werebetter adapted
1 (Its armour could not defend it well enough
1 (It had nothing left to eat
1 (It got sluggish in the cold
1 (It could'nt adapt to the lower temperature
1 ( This game is as accurate aspossible. EVOLUTION was a greatadventure.The plants and animalsdescribed had,or have,a place inthat adventure.
1 " --existing--organisms--appeared yrs.ago,
1 !&(,YEuparkeria had strong hind legs and a long tail, indicating
1 which took over from icthyosaursGiant flightless birds called Diatrymids ate the small mammalsSoon however carnivorous mammalsbecame the main predators.
1 which it used for defence. It grew to be 5 metres long.
1 which developed a shell to hide in when in danger.
1 various habitats.
1 towards the end of the Jurassic.Speculation still exists as to whether or not they could fly. The Cretaceous period started 136 million years ago.
1 through its skin. They may have rudimentary eyes.
1 these would warm it up.
1 that it walked on two legs.
1 successful
1 steady sub-tropical temperature.The Dinosaurs spread into
1 spirals like a pine cone.
1 smaller amphibians. It grew to 5 metres long.
1 run-in to man.
1 rhinoceros with a horn up to 2 metres long.
1 resembled the modern terns; it fed on small fishes.
1 reptile.It laid a shelled egg on land so water was not needed. 6&
1 reproduce themselves we had lifeThe first creatures did not
1 replaced it
1 regurgitates its food for
1 reduced in size.
1 organisms meant faster evolutionThe first true multi-celled
1 omniverous.
1 nearer the poles.
1 maiden-hair tree.It has remainedunchanged for 200 million years. @
1 like todays had evolved.
1 leopard, although it probably ate plants as well as meat.
1 leaves arranged in open crowns.
1 its modern shape.
1 is just one theory.
1 is extinctdiesYou have scored Your score was could evolve into:- TIME
1 insects at night.
1 immense proportions.
1 herbivores roamed.
1 groups were present.
1 grew to huge proportions.
1 further chewing.
1 from the rest of the world.
1 forests. Its hooves were wide tostop it sinking.
1 excellent hearing. It hunts
1 enlarged into peg-like tusks anda large mobile upper lip.
1 edges on its teeth.
1 earthworm.
1 displaced it
1 developed armour
1 could not reproduce
1 conifers replaced it
1 climate occurred.
1 cheek teeth are superbly adaptedfor grazing.
1 broke up at this time.
1 bristly legs.
1 breathe oxygen - there was none.But in time creatures capable oftrapping sunlight evolved.
1 between its limbs and its body, so it could glide.
1 better herd-instincts
1 backbone is solid.
1 animals arose 700M yrs ago.
1 animal where individual cells can do specialised functions. P
1 and still exists today.and lasted yrs.
1 amphibians
1 amphibian. It still had to lay eggs in the water of the swamp. <(F
1 active swimmer.
1 Your task is to retrace thecourse of that evolution & reachman. It was not a simple course-there were many dead-ends. Therewere also times when it appearedthat nothing was happening untilsuddenly,startling changes wouldcome from unexpected sources.
1 Without Cyanophytes it had no oxygen
1 Trilobites continued. But new forms of life appeared.
1 To find out if the creatureunder the cursor has successors,you press 0, and then, to createone of them,you press the numbergiven against the one you want.
1 This process 'photosynthesis' produces oxygen as a by-product.Oxygen entered the atmosphere - and animals could evolve.
1 This last period has been one of glaciation.
1 These eventually died. The firsthorses etc. were tiny.
1 There were no shrubs toeat
1 There were also giant bivalve molluscs (like clams today). Plant life was still dominated by the conifers and cycads.
1 There is some evidence that at this time a nearby star explodedThe period from 65M years ago to2M years ago is the Tertiary. It is often called 'The Age of Mammals'.
1 There is an easy version ofthe game where temperature, foodrequirements and competition arenot considered - so nothing everdies & you must reach man beforethe centre of the screen is full|
1 Their place was taken by the bipedal Iguanodon.
1 The world was drifting into
1 The world enjoyed a fairly
1 The sea teemed with sharks,
1 The oxygen itself gave rise to alayer of ozone in the atmosphereThis shielded the earth from themore harmful solar radiation. the early organisms were simple - like bacteria.
1 The new trees did not need swampconditions as they had seeds. Limestone cliffs were formed by tiny creatures called fusulinidsLarge reptiles measuring up to 3.5 metres fed on the amphibiansThe reptiles became true land- dwellers and diversified.
1 The more efficient
1 The link shown in this game
1 The flying reptiles 'Pterosaurs'were declining.
1 The flowers were pollinated by the numerous flying insects. Pollination by insects is more certain than wind pollination. Little evidence exists to tell us where flowers came from.
1 The first land animal,a scorpionalso appeared at this time.
1 The first birds appeared
1 The first 'epoch'of the Tertiaryis the Palaeocene.
1 The drifting of the continents isolated some mammal groups. Marsupials were confined to
1 The cycads it lived on have disappeared
1 The conifers and shrubsitate have declined
1 The carnosaurs filled its niche
1 The bigger dinosaurs competed with it
1 The big ferns had gone and it could not adapt
1 The best known creature from this time is the trilobite.
1 The Triassic period, first age of reptiles began 225M yrs ago. The first dinosaurs appeared, both herbivores and carnivores. The dinosaurs had straight legs unlike their squat ancestors. In the plant world gingkoes and conifers flourished.
1 The Permian period began 280M years ago.
1 The Jurassic was the age of the giant herbivorous dinosaurs. Brontosaurus was alive. It may not have been the biggest.
1 The Devonian period - 'The Age of Fishes' - began 390M yrs ago.Earlier jawless fishes followed several evolutionary directions.Meanwhile on land plants had developed and grown in size. During the Carboniferous period (345M-280M) coal was formed. The swampy conditions stopped itrotting and layers built up. The first amphibians arrived, leading on to the first reptilesAnd in the forests there were winged insects.
1 The Cretaceous saw the emergenceof the flowering plants.
1 TODAY'S RECIPE - COAL Take a Lepidodendron. Place in a warm swamp. Wait 300 million years.
1 TEMPM.Yrs
1 Stegosaurus did!
1 Some think that a change in
1 Some pterosaurs may even have been warm-blooded.
1 Some organisms began to 'swap' genes with others like them. The resulting organisms were different from both parents. A large number of different
1 Rhynia was too
1 Pterosaurs such as Pteranodon took to the air.
1 Press any key to start
1 Pliocene epoch.
1 Other groups of herbivore appearsuch as the ankylosaurs.
1 Ordovician period began.
1 Only the first 3 letters ofeach creature are shown.For moredetails you should position thecursor at the organism you want,and then press 1.
1 Nothing under cursor
1 North America was separated
1 Moves are-Quit? yes/no
1 More advanced reptiles competed with it & won
1 Miocene epoch.
1 Meanwhile the flowering plants were diversifying still further.Insects were expanding to the 750,000 species we know today. From 20M to 5M is the
1 Meanwhile the birds were gettinglighter and diversifying.
1 Meanwhile other smaller, faster dinosaurs evolved - egg-stealersIn the seas the ammonites
1 Many animals such as the mammothdied out during this period. Thinking man - homo sapiens - arrived about 250,000 years ago.
1 Mammals were small and lived on insects. Their time was to come.The Cretaceous ended 65M yrs agoGreat changes occurred.
1 Mammals had diverged from the reptiles much earlier.
1 Keep a Pteranodon!
1 Its niche was filled bythe newer plants
1 Its ancestors had
1 It was a herbivore and there was no grass
1 It was a grazing animalwith no grazing
1 It declined when the later primates arrived
1 In the seas Ammonites - large spiral-shaped creatures appearedOn land the large ferns gave way to conifers.
1 In the conifer forests modern insects were appearing.
1 In the Cretaceous big herbivoreslike Brontosaurus declined.
1 In its first 30 million years an explosion of life took place.The animals were invertebrates - they had no backbones.
1 Imagine the earth some 3000million years ago. It is hot andairless: and yet from the simplegases in the atmosphere, life isabout to spring. The world waitsfor EVOLUTION.
1 Icthyosaurus returned to the seaand looked very like a dolphin. Back on land herds of giant
1 Huge sea-going reptiles like Tylosaurus fed on them.
1 Hesperornis (a sea bird) lost the power of flight altogether. In the late Cretaceous 4-footed grazers like Triceratops appear.And Tyrannosaurus had evolved to hunt them.
1 Grass lands appeared, and so didthe main herbivorous groups. Some early mammals grew to
1 From time to time disasterswill occur.If you get completelystuck, pressing 4 will sometimesmake one happen. Press 2 to seeyour score,& 3 to quit the game.|
1 From the start of life to these jellyfish had taken 2500M yrs. Fossil evidence really starts inthe next period - the Cambrian. The Cambrian began 570M yrs ago and ended 500M yrs ago.
1 From 5M to 2M is called the
1 From 54M to 37M is called the Eocene.
1 For example, to evolve cowsyou need grass for them to eat.Grass in turn needs insects forpollination ..etc..There is alsocompetition between creatures.Ifyou go too far, too early, alongone branch, other branches mightnot get started.
1 Fly spray is not much use against an 80 ton Brontosaurus.
1 Evidence suggests that these graptolites had soft backbones. The Siluvian period started 435Myears ago.It was a turning pointLife took to the land. The firstland-plant was a club-moss.
1 EVOLUTION
1 During the game a list ofall the creatures that exist atthe time is shown in the centreof screen.There is a cursor thatcan be moved by the 5,6,7,8 keys
1 Competition from early primates was too strong
1 Carnivorous dinosaurs grew in size and fed on the herbivores. The carnivores of the period probably hunted in packs.
1 By this time some mammals
1 By this time fish very much
1 By this time all the mammal
1 By the end of the Cretaceous flowering plants were everywhereConifers were confined to
1 Australia and South America. Some of these marsupials were hunters, like todays big cats. The Oligocene epoch lasted from 37M to 20M years ago.
1 At the start of the Tertiary there was much volcanic activityThis was linked to the shifting of the continents.
1 At the end of this epoch the main primate groups existed. Everything was set for the
1 At the end of the Carboniferous period the continents collided. The super-continent known as 'Pangaea' was formed.
1 Amongst these were graptolites -colonial branching animals.
1 All the dinosaurs disappeared. So did the Ammonites in the sea.There are many theories as to why this happened.
1 500 million years ago the
1 2M years ago marked the start of the Quaternary.
1 190M years ago saw the start of the Jurassic period.
1 (whales) had returned to the seaMonkeys and apes had arrived on the scene.
1 'Supersaurus' discovered in 1972may have weighed 100 tonnes. The super continent Pangaea
1 'Eukaryotes' with a definite cell-nucleus arose 1200M yrs agoEukaryotes probably arose by oneorganism ingesting another.
1 HEATING PROBLEMS? Why not grow plates on your back?
1 In the normal game,organismsare affected by temperature & byother organisms. When you ask tosee successors, only those whichcould survive in the world as itstands will be shown.
1 GARDEN PESTS?