#cooksonia

Danny:" So, Dr. Pamela Isley. I would like to have your DNA." Poison Ivy was angry:" What!" Danny opened his hand, and out of his hand, a plant started to sprout from it. As Ivy saw that, she looked at the boy and waited for what he wanted to say. Danny:" I need your DNA to stabilize a girl who has genetic problems." Pamela:" Genetic Problems?" Danny:"Well, Clone problems, and I think your DNA would help her. So are you okay with it?" Pamela:" Sure." Danny smiled and took her into the portal. ++ Undergrowth Realm. That was how Ivy was taken to this prehistoric place, just plants and all of them speak to her. Many extinct plants too, like the Cooksonia. And it was massive! Bigger then she thought possible. There she meet that massive Plant god, and the tiny girl in the tube. The boy left as he shows her the place, he has to go back being a hero.

"Fifty-eight Small Steps for Myriapod, One Big Leap for Land Life" Kampecaris/basal house centipede Silurian, 420 million years ago, Old Red Sandstone (Scotland) This one is fairly Barlowe-inspired. I figure that the first animals on land indeed would've seen an alien world. The fungi are Prototaxites, interpreted as a giant branching semi-lichen, and the foreground plants are good old Cooksonia. Kampecaris is a strange stubby little millipede, probably one of the first arthropods to set foot on land (mites may have beaten it to the punch, as well as scorpions). It's being accosted by a house centipede, based on recent interpretations of the early Devonian arthropod Rhyniognatha. Right now, they're kings of their domain, and I wanted to portray them as such. This is an entry in my Perspectives series! Check out #perspectives on my blog for more.

A. G. Cook - serenader + A. G. Cook - audiogargoyle

This is one of the earliest genuses of vascular land plants, from the Silurian and Devonian periods (~433 to 393 mya).

Prototaxites loganii, a mysterious tree-like multicellular terrestrial eukaryote, towers above the primitive moss-like land plants that covered the ground during the Devonian period. (~419-358 Mya)

An unfortunate biological scheduling conflict occurs on the coast of a Silurian lagoon when Pseudoniscus horseshoe crabs and Eurypterus sea scorpions come to the same beach to mate and spawn. Although they are relatives who share both this behaviour and eyes which lack acuity, but have perfect night vision, the sea scorpions have no qualms about using this accidental meeting to snack on their smaller cousins.

[ID: A pixel art depiction of the early plant cooksonia, done in various shades of purple with a cyan line around the plants. /ID]

Cooksonia #cooksonia (at Naturhistorisk Museum Oslo) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdWatQWLcyM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=