https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz Find either a plant or animal example for each time period. Include a picture/sketch and description. en-us 2018-01-26 20:41:03 UTC 2023-05-07 20:40:49 UTC hello@padlet.com lrjbennett https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/482259186 This is a Hallucigenia. It lived during the Cambrian time period. It is thought to be a relative of velvet worms. This animal was an invertebrate with NO backbone. ]]> 2020-03-30 14:14:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/482259186 lrjbennett https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/485641007 Simple life (single and multi-cellular) set the stage for more sophisticated life. Most of these life forms did not have the hard parts or skeleton to leave fossils. ]]> 2020-04-01 01:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/485641007 lrjbennett https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/485684600 The Platybelodon looked like an elephant with a long trunk and jaw with teeth on the end. This animal was a herbivore and lived during the Miocene in Africa and Asia from 23.0 mya to 5.3 mya. ]]> 2020-04-01 02:28:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/485684600 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486401873
t rex which is short for tyrannosaurus rex was known as king of the tyrant lizards during the mesozoic]]> 2020-04-01 11:32:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486401873 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486413754 smilodon known as the saber tooth tiger was the most famous saber tooth cats and although it is not closely related to cats today it is in the felidae family.]]> 2020-04-01 11:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486413754 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486438728 the jellyfish has been around for 500 million years or more which makes them the oldest multi organ animal ]]> 2020-04-01 11:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486438728 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486493425 these tiny organisms were the first organisms on the planet that would evolve into more complex organisms]]> 2020-04-01 12:24:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486493425 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486508587 the dodo bird was a flightless bird that went extinct do to over hunting ]]> 2020-04-01 12:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486508587 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486699166 2020-04-01 13:51:01 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486699166 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486701514 llived millions of years ago]]> 2020-04-01 13:51:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486701514 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486708577 T rex has short arms and lived milions of years ago]]> 2020-04-01 13:54:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486708577 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486716236 2020-04-01 13:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/486716236 gavdusthd https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487040847 sabertooth cats were well known hunters during their time on earth]]> 2020-04-01 15:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487040847 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487043353 this marine animal called, Anomalocaris, is no longer than 3 feet long! today, evidence shows that this was an ancient ancestor of artropods. ]]> 2020-04-01 15:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487043353 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487045158 Wiwaxia is a genus of soft-bodied animals that were covered in carbonaceous scales and spines]]> 2020-04-01 15:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487045158 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487046349 ediacaran fauna- first mulicellular, soft bodied marine organisms]]> 2020-04-01 15:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487046349 gavdusthd https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487047835 Ostriches can reach speeds close to 40mph]]> 2020-04-01 15:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487047835 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487052075 the helicoprion is a shark-like eugeneodontid holocephalid fish.]]> 2020-04-01 15:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487052075 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487055001 the first saber-toothed cat fossil in Canada was found in Medicine Hat, Alberta ]]> 2020-04-01 15:56:10 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487055001 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487055711 The ichthyosaur was an aquatic reptile that is a distant relative to lizards and snakes. They ranged from 7-30 feet long and had long jaws and big eyes. ]]> 2020-04-01 15:56:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487055711 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487056304 the look of this creature looks closely of an octopus ]]> 2020-04-01 15:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487056304 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487058879 litopternas  limbs were modified for running and also had special features for locking their knees, allowing them to stand for long periods of time. ]]> 2020-04-01 15:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487058879 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487059584 Brachiopods, phylum Brachiopoda, are a group of lophotrochozoan animals that have hard "valves" on the upper and lower surfaces, unlike the left and right arrangement in bivalve molluscs.]]> 2020-04-01 15:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487059584 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487065188 Nearly three percent of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine

]]> 2020-04-01 15:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487065188 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487073935 called a dimetrodon- found in early permian, had a unique vertebrae]]> 2020-04-01 16:03:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487073935 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487077141 This is the earliest known tetrapod called, Tiktaalik. It's considered to be the link between the lobe-finned fishes and early amphibians. This aquatic animal was only mostly in the shallow waters, "walking" the surface. ]]> 2020-04-01 16:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487077141 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487099842 sponges have spine, mouth or extremities. the pores in there bodies filter food gasses and water.]]> 2020-04-01 16:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487099842 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487101075 one of the earliest carnivorous marine reptiles called a plesiosaur, found around 245 million years ago]]> 2020-04-01 16:13:00 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487101075 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487102295 The Plesiosaur was a long-necked marine reptile that lived in deeper waters. They were widely distributed across the world. It swam by flopping its fins up and down much like a sea lion today!]]> 2020-04-01 16:13:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487102295 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487113109 The Megantereon was a saber-toothed cat that lived approximately 10 million to 500,000 years ago. This cat was fierce, aggressive and probably cast fear into its prey at the time that it lived!]]> 2020-04-01 16:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487113109 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487116172 coryphodons can be found 50-60 million years ago. they were part of the world's first group of large browsing mammals. ]]> 2020-04-01 16:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487116172 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487120555 Jawless fish have a long, cylindrical body and a cartilaginous skeleton. The numerous extinct species were often heavily armored and are among the earliest vertebrate fossils known.]]> 2020-04-01 16:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487120555 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487134095 Glyptodon was a genus of large, heavily armored mammals of the subfamily Glyptodontinae – relatives of armadillos – that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. It was roughly the same size and weight as a Volkswagen Beetle, though flatter in shape.

]]> 2020-04-01 16:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487134095 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487138983 triceratops most distinguishing feature is its massive skull, which could reach up to one third of its total body length and featured a large frill and three horns, two long horns along the forehead and the third above the nasal cavities.]]> 2020-04-01 16:27:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487138983 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487145050 The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.]]> 2020-04-01 16:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487145050 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487304324 the Helicoprion fish was a species that is similar to a modern day shark the thing that makes it different is its curved mouth.]]> 2020-04-01 17:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487304324 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487305862 the Stegosaurus was a herbivorous that defended itself with its large tail. ]]> 2020-04-01 17:34:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487305862 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487321192 The Merychippus was the first known species in the horse family ]]> 2020-04-01 17:41:24 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487321192 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487581895 a slow growing plant that forms on walls and trees.]]> 2020-04-01 19:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487581895 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487586511 It has no jaw stomach or fins]]> 2020-04-01 19:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487586511 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487589468 A Yew has 2 extinct genres]]> 2020-04-01 19:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487589468 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487593998 The giant ground sloth was an elephant sized sloth]]> 2020-04-01 20:02:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487593998 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487703163 A kiwi is a brown, fuzzy flightless bird native to forest and jungles in New Zealand. Endangered species.]]> 2020-04-01 21:15:52 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/487703163 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/488845640 Hallucigenia: It's name reflects the weird appearance, its know as a lobopodian worm. It's ancestor is the velvet worm. ]]> 2020-04-02 13:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/488845640 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/488868923 Helicoprian:  25 feet long and weighed 1,000 pounds. have grinding plate bones used to grind up soft shelled marine animals.]]> 2020-04-02 13:11:57 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/488868923 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489031908 Jianianhualong tengi: discovered in liaoning province, china. a little over 3 feet long, closest relatives to modern birds, and possibly had flight capability's. ]]> 2020-04-02 14:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489031908 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489135988 Linches are believed to have the first fungi to team up with photosynthesizing organisms like green algae]]> 2020-04-02 14:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489135988 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489147500 Alive 200 million years ago and rubbed shoulders with the dinosaurs. Spine like needles are for protection. Live for 1,000 years and grow 50m high with a trunk diameter over 3m.]]> 2020-04-02 14:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489147500 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489169842 gastornis: had large strong legs, average height is 1.75 meters, and was a carnivore. ]]> 2020-04-02 15:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489169842 maria_mead https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489612209 plesiosaurs: 30 ft long order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period about 203 million years ago.]]> 2020-04-02 17:57:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489612209 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489872215 trilobites were mostly deep sea creatures that were only 1mm to 72 cm in size. the trilobites only have three body parts ]]> 2020-04-02 20:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489872215 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489888307 blastoids are part of the echinoderms family. there related to starfish and sea lilies. the body region contained 13 plates of calcium carbonate ]]> 2020-04-02 20:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489888307 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489900777 sauropod dinosaurs had very long necks, long tails but small heads also noted to be the largest animal to live on land ]]> 2020-04-02 20:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489900777 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489911958 saber toothed cats know for their canine teeth that can be seen even when their mouth is closed most have been thought to live during the Eocene epoch to the Pleistocene epoch ]]> 2020-04-02 20:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/489911958 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491127971 a genus of extinct reptile.]]> 2020-04-03 13:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491127971 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491135873  the oddest thing about Isoxys, was its two bulbous eyes ]]> 2020-04-03 13:54:50 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491135873 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491157525  It is a critically endangered antelope. ]]> 2020-04-03 14:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491157525 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491598591 something splits in front of the eyes]]> 2020-04-03 17:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491598591 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491602653 they have true bones,teeth, swim bladders and gills ]]> 2020-04-03 17:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491602653 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491621358 they had long necks. they could reach the trees ]]> 2020-04-03 17:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491621358 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491623192 very long teeth ]]> 2020-04-03 17:24:43 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/491623192 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495077194   They are part of the class of sea animals called cephalopods. ]]> 2020-04-06 15:24:17 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495077194 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495085790 The Mesozoic Era is literally the era of “middle life.” It is also known as the age of dinosaurs]]> 2020-04-06 15:27:33 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495085790 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495093223 The babirusa is a species of wild pig where its tusks instead of growing to the side grow though its snout and eventually puncture the skull if they grow long enough.]]> 2020-04-06 15:30:22 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495093223 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495102739 Dickinsonia is an extinct genus of basal animal that lived in the late ediacaran period. Its growth seems consistent with a stem-group bilaterian affinity, though some suggest it could have been a fungus or even belong to an extinct kingdom]]> 2020-04-06 15:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495102739 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495125073 dunkleosteus was a massive armored placeoderm fish with armored plates instead of teeth, while not nearly as large as megelodon it reached around 30 feet and had a very strong bite force for its size ]]> 2020-04-06 15:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/495125073 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/501064388 The giant ground sloth was very different from sloths today. It was a massive 20 foot long 12 foot tall tank.]]> 2020-04-09 18:07:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/501064388 https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/501069037 The sim-acuatic Spinosaurus was likely the largest of the meat eating dinosaurs reaching over 23 foot tall]]> 2020-04-09 18:10:39 UTC https://padlet.com/lrjbennett/m1zo1ag6tnfz/wish/501069037