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Bookmark or Share- What is a Living Fossil? - WorldAtlasA living fossil is an existing organism that closely resembles an extinct organism that is only known from fossil archives. Living fossils tend to portray a slow rate of progress compared to other organisms, making them identifiable over long periods of time.
- Living Fossils - Digital Atlas of Ancient LifeWhat is a living fossil? Every living thing on Earth has been shaped by evolution—changing through time in a branching relationship of ancestors and descendants. But change can happen very slowly. Some of today’s plants and animals look just like their ancestors or close relatives from many millions of years ago.
- Living Fossils | Popular ScienceThe term “living fossil” is an imperfect concept, which has caused much consternation among paleontologists and biologists as they have sifted through the fossil record over time. It is meant...
- 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...
- Living fossil - WikipediaA living fossil is an extant taxon that cosmetically 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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