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In the 2010 two-parter " The Hungry Earth " / " Cold Blood ", Silurians are awoken in 2020 by an underground drilling operation.

These Silurians lack the third eye of their 1970-1984 counterparts, and wear masks.

Having misinterpreted it as a deliberate attack on the Silurians, the Silurians take hostages, including Eleventh Doctor ( Matt Smith )' s companion Amy Pond ( Karen Gillan ).

The Doctor's attempts at a peace negotiation between humans and Silurians is ruined when Alaya ( Neve McIntosh ) a war hungry Silurian warrior provokes a panicked human mother ( Nia Roberts ) into killing her.

The Silurian leader Eldane ( Stephen Moore ) recognises that humans and Silurians have the potential to reach some common ground in the future, and allows the Doctor and some of his allies to depart, leaving two humans behind with the Silurians to act as ambassadors to the human race when the Silurians re-awaken in a thousand years.

In " The Pandorica Opens ", some Silurians appear in 102 AD alongside various alien enemies of the Doctor ( including alien Daleks, Sontarans, Nestenes and other species ) to imprison the Doctor in the mythical " Pandorica " in order, as they see it, to save the universe from him.

Another Silurian called Vastra ( also portrayed by McIntosh ) appears in " A Good Man Goes to War " ( 2011 ); exposition reveals she encountered the Doctor having escaped into the Victorian era London Underground and went on to become a detective with a human companion, and to kill Jack the Ripper.

The Doctor calls on her to go to war alongside him when Amy is abducted.

Silurians are mentioned in the 2011 Torchwood: Miracle Day episode " The Blood Line "; Jack Harkness ( John Barrowman ) briefly muses that the Blessing ( an ancient phenomenon beneath the Earth's surface ) could be out of " Silurian mythology ".

A Silurian doctor ( played by Richard Hope ) is seen attending to Winston Churchill in The Wedding of River Song as part of an aborted timeline.

Hope returns to play a Silurian-Bleytal-seen only on a computer screen in " Dinosaurs on a Spaceship ", in which the titular spaceship is a Silurian one searching for a new planet with a cargo of dinosaurs.

The Silurian colony on board have all been ejected from the ship by Solomon ( David Bradley ) prior to the episode.

The ship is shown ( by a postcard ) to have reached a planet named Siluria with its dinosaurs at the episode's conclusion.