570 vanished lives

385Mesozoic

A long neck and grasping forelegs converged on the mantis body plan.

386Mesozoic

Short leathery forewings covered folded membranous hindwings.

387Mesozoic

Six extremely long legs may have spread its weight across the water surface.

388Mesozoic

A long siphon accessed sugary secretions before flowers evolved.

389Mesozoic

It resembled a giant primitive flea but may not be a direct flea ancestor.

390Paleozoic

Broad net-veined wings carried an early aerial predator through oxygen-rich forests.

391Paleozoic

Huge triangular wings and long tail filaments belonged to a giant mayfly relative.

392Paleozoic

Thoracic winglets accompanied four large wings in an extinct flight architecture.

393Paleozoic

A shield-like pronotum and flat wings mark an early cockroach-mantis relative.

394Paleozoic

An enlarged prothorax carried a row of prominent spines.

395Paleozoic

Its wing venation pushes the cockroach-like pattern deep into the Carboniferous.

396Mesozoic

Raptorial forelegs and three tail filaments formed a lost mayfly body plan.

397Mesozoic

Large wings and robust mouthparts belonged to the spectacular titanopterans.

398Mesozoic

Pollen on the legs and body records an early pollination relationship.

399Paleozoic

Meter-high columns towered over landscapes of otherwise low vegetation.

400Paleozoic

Tiny flask-shaped fruiting bodies inside plant tissue are among the oldest ascomycete evidence.

401Mesozoic

A millimeter-scale cap and gills show agaric mushrooms in the dinosaur era.

402Mesozoic

A slender stem and tiny cap already resembled marasmioid mushrooms.

403Mesozoic

A mineralized cap brings early agaric evidence to the southern continents.

404Cenozoic

Its pleated bell cap may have deliquesced like a modern inkcap.

405Cenozoic

A golden-brown cap retained three-dimensional gills in amber.

406Cenozoic

Radial striations remained visible across a minute translucent cap.

407Mesozoic

Hyphae surrounding a scale insect preserve a tiny Cretaceous association.

408Mesozoic

Simple club-shaped fruiting bodies show non-gilled fungi in Cretaceous forests.