When did the animals colonize continental interiors for the first time?

Animals for the first time colonized continental interiors sometime in late Silurian or early Devonian, approximately the same time as extensive earthly fossils appear. The first animals that colonized continental interiors were probably insects. It is noteworthy that the first known insects of fossil, rhyniognatha hirsti , estimated at 396-407 million years, have already developed wings that would travel far inland if it was sufficient food in the form of plants. Before examples of fossil examples such as Cooksonia (northern hemisphere) and barwanathia (Australia). Previously, earthly flora consisted of mechophers (mosses, etc.), which had to be in very wet, usually coastal areas to survive.

Of course, life could spread to continental interiors across the Greeks, but in this ancient era due to lack of ground plants, most rivers had flushing rather than winding structures that made them less hospitableé for animals. As the vascular plants really started to walk, the rivers formed the more united flow and brought eyelashes and small water animals. Insects, which first took steps to the attic, would be similar to modern bristlets, an evolutionary relic that has first appeared in Devonian since its first.

Insects existed on Earth in a small number for tens of millions of years, but in a fossil record does not appear in large numbers until late carbon, about 330 million years ago, when the first real forests began to grow. It is quite possible that there was insects before, but for any number of reasons he reliably disappointed.

Meanwhile, the first tetraples, as well as Acanthosga, began to take their first steps on dry LA about 360 million years ago. After tens of millions, they remained on the coasts and muddy swamps, where they were common at the time. But about 340 million years ago some amphibians developed around the VajEC with a hard membrane, which made it possible to lay them in court and created the first reptiles that resembled small lizards. These animals would be among the first non-insects to colonize continental interiors, now full of nutrient-rich forests.