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Living fossils
For each fossil, try to identify the living animal which closely resembles it
Living fossil usually does not mean an animal is completely unchanged from a prehistoric form to today. Rather it usually means that it is the last survivor of an ancient family, or has some "ancient" features that make it similar to an extinct animal
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| First submitted | June 27, 2024 |
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Cheated a bit with platypuses. The skull shown here is a skull of a miocene platypus. Platypuses are not living fossils because they look like platypuses from the miocene, a time by which most animal groupings should look relatively familiar, but they are definitely living fossils because of their egg laying habits, unusual in mammals.
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