Animals
8 living fossils that have barely changed since the age of the dinosaurs
Some lineages barely changed while continents drifted and dinosaurs rose and fell, keeping the same body plan through extinctions that erased nearly everything around them. Paleontologists call these survivors living fossils, a popular term for species whose fossil record stretches back tens or hundreds of millions of years with little structural change. Here are eight […]
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