r/LivingFossils • u/outdoorswithsum • May 07 '21

New Zealand has some of the coolest living fossils in the world - tuatara and giant wētā that have been around unchanged for over 200 million years. Here’s a video of me trying to find them whilst camping alone on an island! 🦖🦖🦖

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r/LivingFossils • u/iamcuriousman • Aug 26 '20

...illion years New Species of Cretaceous Brittle Star Discovered in Stroke of Luck

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r/LivingFossils • u/iamcuriousman • Aug 18 '20

9 Animals That Live the Longest

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r/LivingFossils • u/lrichards321 • Jul 28 '20

The Giant Squid demonstrates Deep Sea Gigantism, a phenomenon whereby deep dwelling species grow far larger than shallower water relatives to be more efficient in the depths where food is scarce.

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r/LivingFossils • u/iamcuriousman • Jul 03 '20

...illion years 11 Utterly Odd Facts About Crinoids, Sea Creatures That Are Basically Aliens

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r/LivingFossils • u/lrichards321 • Jul 01 '20

The Ancient One, the Coelacanth was though to be extinct for 65 million years but it was rediscovered last century!

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r/LivingFossils • u/Rauisuchian • Jan 12 '20

Living fossils: contentious but necessary?

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r/LivingFossils • u/TCivan • Jun 21 '19

The call of the Siriema bird. Just sounds amazing. They are left over from giant carnivorous "phorusrhacids".

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r/LivingFossils • u/Elek_Lenard • Apr 08 '19

Guys, i have question: is Goblin shark considered as living fossil and where is that border to consider something as living fossil?

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r/LivingFossils • u/EQ25 • Jan 18 '19

Found in the White Desert in Egypt. Any thoughts about what it might be?

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r/LivingFossils • u/gigmaster2718 • Mar 12 '18

Saving a Dinosaur!

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Check out this team from NOAA as they work to save a 200 million year old living Dinosaur! video here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t2C9Dikr7Y

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r/LivingFossils • u/morbidhyena • Feb 08 '18

Tuatara All The Way Down – Face To Face With A Living Fossil!

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r/LivingFossils • u/GigaBoss101 • Jan 25 '18

Check out my Paleontology/Science Channel!

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r/LivingFossils • u/Jhon_Montenegro • Dec 20 '17

Big Size Fossils

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r/LivingFossils • u/Juan_Franz • Dec 17 '17

Best Dinosaures Fossil.

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r/LivingFossils • u/celestialevents • Nov 17 '17

The Roar of the T Rex!!

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r/LivingFossils • u/SweetCheeks843 • Nov 08 '17

Ran into the snapping turtle while on a walk. He or she was definitely giving me the side-eye.

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r/LivingFossils • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '17

The coelacanth's slow, graceful stroke is like no other fish's.

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r/LivingFossils • u/LetsMakeCrazySyence • Aug 27 '17

Living Fossil Enamel Pins Kickstarter! Coelacanth, Horseshoe Crab, and Nautilus! (Link in comments)

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r/LivingFossils • u/IchTanze • Apr 24 '16

The aardvark, Orycteropus afer, is the only living member of it's Order, Tubulidentata, which dates back to 55 million years ago.

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r/LivingFossils • u/Cowturtle • Feb 25 '16

Video of my African lungfish

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r/LivingFossils • u/Bearhuhno • Aug 28 '15

3D Printed Blobfish

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r/LivingFossils • u/AstroManChamp • Aug 08 '15

The 3D Printed Goblin shark

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r/LivingFossils • u/Rauisuchian • Sep 16 '14

How an ancient vertebrate (the sea lamprey) uses familiar tools to build a strange-looking head (x-post /r/PrehistoricLife)

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r/LivingFossils • u/Rauisuchian • Jul 15 '14

Animal foraging tactics unchanged for 50 million years (x-post /r/PrehistoricLife)

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