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Bookmark or Share- Living fossils: 12 creatures that look the same now as they did ...A living fossil is a species that hasn’t evolved significantly for millions of years and closely resembles ancestors found in the fossil record.
- Take a Tour of These Incredible Living FossilsMeet six fascinating creatures that endured from prehistoric times to the present day without much modification. (Credit: Pedal to the Stock/Shutterstock) Most everyone has wondered, at one time or another, what it would be like to live alongside dinosaurs.
- 16 Animals That Are Living Fossils - TreehuggerA living fossil is an organism that has retained the same form over millions of years, has few or no living relatives, and represents a sole surviving lineage from an epoch long past. Many...
- These 5 ‘living fossils’ still roam the Earth - National GeographicKnown as “living fossils,” organisms like horseshoe crabs are descendents of ancient lineages and look nearly identical to their fossilized ancestors from hundreds of millions of years ago....
- Living fossil - WikipediaA living fossil is an extant taxon that phenotypically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the fossil species must be old relative to the time of origin of the extant clade. Living fossils commonly are of species-poor lineages, but they need not be.
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