What are examples of prehistoric plants and animals?

A living fossil plant still around today is the Ginko. It looks practically unchanged over millions of years. A prehistoric animal still around today is for example the crocodile. read more

Prehistoric plants include mosses, horsetails and ferns from the Paleozoic era and bald cypress, ginkgos, cycads, magnolias and palms from the Mesozoic era. Horsetails and ferns are considered to be the first land plants. read more

For example, during the Carboniferous period, 286 to 360 million years ago, Britain was covered in forests of the tree-like plant Lepidodendron. Different parts of the plant, including the roots, leaves, cones, spores and even different parts of the trunk, were found as fossils and named as separate species. read more