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All of these were described from fossils before later being found alive. [15] [16] [17] The fact that a living fossil is a surviving representative of an archaic lineage does not imply that it must retain all the "primitive" features (plesiomorphies) of its ancestral lineage. Although it is common to say that living fossils exhibit ...
List of prehistoric brittle stars; List of prehistoric bryozoan genera; List of prehistoric chitons; List of prehistoric foraminifera genera; List of ichthyosaur genera; List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record; List of plesiosaur genera; List of prehistoric malacostracans; List of prehistoric medusozoan genera; List of prehistoric ...
Ca. 37,000-year-old cub of Homotherium latidens found near the Badyarikha River, Siberia. This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic.
An intact prehistoric mastodon jaw was discovered in the backyard of a Hudson Valley house after the homeowner initially saw a pair of teeth poking up by a plant, according to state officials.
A bdelloid rotifer is a freshwater creature that can be found around the world, measuring too small to see with 24,000-year-old animal found alive, well and ready to reproduce Skip to main content
A team led by palaeontologists at the University of Edinburgh used new laser technology to study the tail vane on a 150-million-year-old fossil.
Coelacanth eggs are large, with only a thin layer of membrane to protect them. Embryos hatch within the female and eventually are born alive, which is a rarity in fish. This was only discovered when the American Museum of Natural History dissected its first coelacanth specimen in 1975 and found it pregnant with five embryos. [69]
About 280 million years ago, a large creature built somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a ...