154Cenozoic
Crane's Ginkgo
Ginkgo cranei
Fan-shaped leaves and paired ovules continued the ginkgo body plan in a species that did not survive to the present.
LIFE ARCHIVE
Browse extinct life from traces nearly 1.9 billion years old to historically recorded extinctions.
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FIELD GUIDES
Giants, strange body plans and lives within human memory. Follow a question into the atlas, then explore the animals behind it.