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 Encyclopedia: Silurian (Doctor Who)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Doctor Who and the Silurians is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts from January 31 to March 14, 1970.
In Doctor Who and the Silurians they are also possessed of a red third eye that has various abilities, such as stunning or killing their opponents, signalling each other, or opening doors keyed to emanations from the third eye.
As it became clear that the Silurians were prepared to destroy every man, woman and child on the Earth until it becomes their home once more the Doctor is forced to trick them into returning to their caves when he overloads the research centre's nuclear reactor, threatening to cause a nuclear explosion.
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 Info and facts on 'Silurian (Doctor Who)'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Silurians were Earth (The 3rd planet from the sun; the planet on which we live) 's first sentient species, were scientifically advanced, and lived during prehistoric times.
The misnomer arose because the race was identified as belonging to the Silurian (From 425 million to 405 million years ago; first air-breathing animals) period when first encountered in the Third Doctor (additional info and facts about Third Doctor) serial Doctor Who and the Silurians (additional info and facts about Doctor Who and the Silurians).
In their first appearance in Doctor Who and the Silurians, a group of Silurians were awakened from hibernation (The act of retiring into inactivity) by the energy from a nearby nuclear power research centre.
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 Silurian - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Silurian is a major division of the geologic timescale that extends from about 408.5 million years before the present (BP) with the end of the Ordovician period until 443.5 million years BP with the beginning of the Devonian period.
The Silurian system was first described by Sir Roderick Murchison in the 1830s based on rocks in south Wales.
During the Silurian, Gondwana remained in high southern latitudes, but there is evidence that the Silurian icecaps were less extensive than those of the late Ordovician.
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 ipedia.com: Silurian Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Permian Carboniferous Devonian Silurian Ordovician Cambrian The Silurian is a...
The Silurian is a Geologic Period that extends from about 408.5 to 443.5 million years before the present.
The Silurian period follows the Ordovician and is followed by the Devonian period.
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 Strange Science: Timeline
At this time, surgeons are not regarded as real doctors, and Paré is roundly criticized for discussing larger issues of medicine and philosophy, considered well beyond his purview.
It will initially be identified (by Cotton Mather) as that of a human giant who perished in Noah's flood, then correctly identified (by Georges Cuvier) as that of a mastodon.
Accompanying Cook is naturalist Joseph Banks, who will collect tens of thousands of plant and animal specimens and initiate the exchange of flora and fauna between Europe, the Americas and the South Seas.
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