Prehistoric Life Prehistoric Secrets in Stone The Earliest Fossils The Silurian Reef Trilobites Fish The Coal Forests Early Reptiles and Amphibians Sea Reptiles Flying Reptiles The Teeming Seas Hunting Dinosaurs Biggest Dinosaurs Two-Footed Plant Eaters Plated and Armoured Dinosaurs Horned Dinosaurs The Mammal Age Dawns Grassland Mammals The Ice Age	Dimetrodon Fossils of Dimetrodon show it had long spines sticking up from its backbone. These must have supported a sail.   Previous: Back Book: Prehistoric Life Section: Prehistoric Chapter: Early Reptiles and Amphibians