Talk:Silurian

Quotes

Who removed the quotes? -- Darth Batrus 12:21, 09 August 2008 (UTC)

I did. Quotes are against the manual of style. -<Azes13 15:35, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Images

Not sure if this is helpful but found this picture whilst reading some extracts from Scales of Injustice and wondered if it might be something to add to the article. Anyway, here it is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/scalesofinjustice/images/800/ep3.html Darth Batrus 18:46, November 22, 2009 (UTC)

Appearences

It says that they are appearing in the pandorica opens and the big bang, does anyone know that for sure? ~ BillyWilliam3rd

300Mya

In The Hungry Earth, at 33:37, the Doctor says, "You're 300 million years outside your comfort zone."

300Mya is around the start of the Permian period (Cisuralian age, Asselian epoch, to be specific). It was during this era that the proto-reptiles split into two lines--pelycosaurs and sauropsids. The pelycosaurs were the ancestors of therapsids (mammal-like reptiles), mammals, and other synapsids. The sauropsids were the ancestors of the birds, most familiar dinosaurs, and modern reptiles.

Anyway, pelycosaurs are clearly still reptilian, and probably cold-blooded, but much more mammal-like in other ways than the sauropsids. And they ruled the planet for most of the next 50M years (until the P-Tr extinction wiped most of them out and the sauropsids took over, until the K-T extinction, aka the Adric extinction, 185 million years later, when synapsids took back over, in the form of mammals).

So, the Silurians could be early pelycosaurs, who evolved around 300Mya. Or they could be Carboniferous-era early reptiles who went into hibernation at the start of the Permian, maybe with different groups of them awakening at various different times in the future as a means of escaping the multiple extinction events.

I don't know if this helps the dating issue or just adds more controversy. If these are very early Silurians, that would explain the lack of the third eye and psychic powers.

Anyway, I'm not sure how to fit all this information into the article, but I'll add the basic 300Mya mention. --Falcotron 05:00, May 23, 2010 (UTC)

Please don't try to fit this info into the article at all. Or, if you simply can't resist, please be very brief and put it either in an italicized, indented paragraph or clearly under the behind-the-scenes section. It's out-of-universe info. And perhaps more to the point, it's speculation about the nature of the connection of the DWU to the RW. And that's really not on. CzechOut ☎ | ✍ 21:46, May 26, 2010 (UTC)

Warrior-gender

Is it worth noting that the majority of the warrior Silurians seen in series 5 are female? HellKaiserryo12 (Talk•Contribs) 22:31, June 18, 2010 (UTC)

No, I don't think so. Not unless we can find an explanation for why this is.122.105.223.16 07:59, June 27, 2010 (UTC)

Susceptibility to electricity

Is it also worth noting the fact that Ambrose was able to kill a Silurian using only a few taser blasts? Although it's well known that even one taser shot can kill a person (as the media here in North America regularly reports), it might be worth noting that this same weakness afflicts at least the version of the Silurians seen in HE/CB. 68.146.81.123 21:18, June 21, 2010 (UTC)