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What does living fossils mean?

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Anonymous

∙ 12y ago
Updated: 11/11/2022

An animal that lives on earth now but which has existed for such a long time that fossils of it are also known. Examples are:-

The Coelacanth.

The Horse Shoe Crab.

The Ginkgo biloba

The Elephant shrew

The Trapdoor spider

The Echidna

The Crocodile

(there are more)

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