living fossils

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Quaternary】Frilled Shark – A Deep-Sea Shark From Suruga Bay Whose Pregnancy Was Estimated at Three and a Half Years

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【Life of the Quaternary】Tuatara – Is It a “Living Fossil”? Studies of Its Bones and Its Genes Disagree

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【Life of the Quaternary】Ginkgo – Inside a Seed-Bearing Tree, Sperm Were Swimming

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【Life of the Quaternary】Metasequoia – Named From Fossils, Then Found Alive in a Chinese Mountain Village

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【Life of the Devonian】Lungfish – The Cocoon It Sleeps In Through Droughts Is Made of Living Cells

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【Life of the Devonian】Coelacanth – The “Extinct” Fish That Comoros Fishermen Caught Every Year

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【Life of the Ordovician】Starfish – The Animal That Lost Its Trunk and Crawls the Seafloor as a Head

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【Life of the Ordovician】Graptolites – The “Writing on the Rocks” Is Still Alive on the Seafloor

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【Life of the Ordovician】Lingula – Only the Shell Shape Stayed the Same for 500 Million Years

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【Life of the Ordovician】Horseshoe Crab – A 445-Million-Year-Old Fossil That Already Looked Like Today’s

Prehistoric Life

【Life of the Ordovician】Crinoids – The “Sea Lilies” That Were Never Supposed to Move Can Crawl Away