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Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Mississippian, Pennsylvanian, Permian.

Insects and plants both invaded terrestrial environments during the Silurian. Insects evolved from small marine arthropods. The class arthropoda remains today one of the largest classes of animals.

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When did the first land plants and animals appear in the fossil record?

The first plants with spores, which indicates that they were land plants, appeared in the Middle Ordovician period, about 470 million years ago. First records of tetrapods, or land animals, show up in the fossil record around 370 million years ago.


The first animals to live successfully on land were?

The first vertebrates to live on land did not come out of the sea until 370 billion years ago. Those first land vertebrates were amphibians. Several structural changes in the bodies of amphibians occurred as they adapted to life on land. Amphibians had moist breathing sacs -lungs- which allowed the animals to absorb oxygen from air. The limbs of amphibians are thought to have derived from the bones of fish fins. Because of there strong flexible internal skeletons the bodies of vertebrates can be much larger than those of insects. While amphibians were well adapted tp their environment, a new group had evolved from them. They evolved to reptiles but we are on the subject of the first land animal so that's that.


What were the first animals to invade the land?

The first animals to successfully invade land were likely arthropods, such as early ancestors of insects, spiders, and scorpions. These creatures adapted to terrestrial environments by developing structures like jointed legs and exoskeletons to support themselves outside of water. They played a crucial role in the colonization of land and paving the way for subsequent terrestrial animal life.


What were the first animals to live completely out of water?

The first animals to live completely out of water were likely terrestrial arthropods, such as insects and spiders. These organisms were able to adapt to living on land by developing specialized respiratory systems to extract oxygen from the air and ways to prevent dehydration. This transition from aquatic to terrestrial life was a significant evolutionary milestone in the history of life on Earth.


Which creatures came next on earth after fish?

After fish, amphibians were the next group of creatures to evolve on Earth. Amphibians are cold-blooded vertebrates that can live both on land and in water. They were the first vertebrates to colonize terrestrial habitats.

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Where and when did the first plant evolve?

Fossils of the earliest land plants come from the Ordovician period (roughly 450 million years ago).


What is the best explanation for why the arthropods such as insects spiders and crabs were the first animals to move onto land?

The simple answer is - evolution. Insects, spiders etc are fairly simple animals - and thus were the first creatures to evolve. It wasn't until my later that, further down the evolutionary timeline, birds and mammals were formed.


Which organism did the first land plant evolve from?

Nonvascular plants


How do landform evolve?

There are many different ways that a land form evolve. These land forms can evolve by erosion or deposition for example.


What is example of one of the first land plants to evolve?

One of the first land plants to evolve was likely green algae, which transitioned from aquatic environments to terrestrial habitats around 450 million years ago. These plants laid the foundation for the development of more complex land plants such as mosses and ferns.


What are some insects that land on the ocean?

Some insects aremy but


Do stingray eat insects?

No. they live underwater. insects live on land.


Do all insects reproduce in water?

No. Most insects reproduce on land.


What are the most abundant land animal?

insects There are a few abundant land animals. Most of the abundant animals are insects.


When did the first land before times movie come out?

1988


Who is the first animal?

Light and dark, sea and sky (sun and stars and moon included), land and plants, birds and fish, then land animals and insects, then Adam, then Eve. Creation!


What would a land snake like Dunsparce evolve into?

Dunsparce, a 1st gen Land Snake Pokémon needs an Evolution. If Dunsparce is a Land Snake, then the question becomes, what does a land snake evolve into? Science of Pokémon.