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scorpions

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The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

scorpions its own citations 2 paragraphs

59:5.6From the briny wa­ters of the seas there crawled out upon the land snails, scor­pi­ons, and frogs. To­day frogs still lay their eggs in wa­ter, and their young first ex­ist as lit­tle fishes, tad­poles. This pe­riod could well be known as the age of frogs.

59:5.7Very soon there­after the in­sects first ap­peared and, to­gether with spi­ders, scor­pi­ons, cock­roaches, crick­ets, and lo­custs, soon over­spread the con­ti­nents of the world. Dragon flies mea­sured thirty inches across. One thou­sand species of cock­roaches de­vel­oped, and some grew to be four inches long.

first air-breathing animal 1 paragraph

59:3.11To­ward the close of the fi­nal Sil­urian sub­mer­gence there is a great in­crease in the echin­o­derms—the stone lilies—as is ev­i­denced by the crinoid lime­stone de­posits. The trilo­bites have nearly dis­ap­peared, and the mol­lusks con­tinue monar­chs of the seas; coral-reef for­ma­tion in­creases greatly. Dur­ing this age, in the more fa­vor­able lo­ca­tions the prim­i­tive wa­ter scor­pi­ons first evolve. Soon there­after, and sud­denly, the true scor­pi­ons—ac­tual air breathers—make their ap­pear­ance.