Silurian (Doctor Who)

Silurians are a fictional race of reptile-like beings from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Silurans were Earth's first sentient species, scientifically advanced and living during the Eocene epoch (the name Silurian is a misnomer). At some point, the Moon approached close to Earth, threatening to cause geological upheaval, and the Silurians went into self-induced hibernation to survive. The Doctor has mentioned that Silurians should more properly be called Eocenes, but the earlier term has stuck. Silurians are reptillian bipeds, are cold-blooded and scaly, with yellow eyes and oval mouths. They are also possessed of a red third eye that has various abilities, glowing when it is active. They were first encountered in the Third Doctor serial Doctor Who and the Silurians. In this story, a group of Silurians were awakened from hibernation by the power from a nearby nuclear power research centre. The Silurians then attempted reclaim the planet from humanity by releasing a deadly virus and attempting to diperse part of the Van Allen Belt. Both plans, however, were thwarted by the Doctor. Despite the Doctor's best efforts to broker a peaceful solution, the Silurian base was destroyed by UNIT on Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's order. Another group of Silurians turned up in the 1984 serial, Warriors of the Deep, where they allied with their aquatic cousins, the Sea Devils, in a second attempt to reclaim Earth from the humans.

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