Living fossils offer a fascinating glimpse into Earth's evolutionary history, showcasing creatures that have survived for millions of years. From the coelacanth to the emperor scorpion ...

or perhaps another species of large shark that was alive at that time. It’s not clear if the whale managed to escape or not.

They don't look alike, and they aren't biologically related, but part of their evolutionary history bears a striking resemblance: these organisms are referred to as "living fossils". In other ...

Hundreds of millions of years later, these species are nearly indistinguishable from their prehistoric ancestors. A horseshoe crab is seen swimming along the sea floor in coastal waters ...

Their look hasn’t changed much since the time of the dinosaurs, making them true living fossils. Sadly ... is one of the oldest fish species still alive today, with a history going back over ...

We’re often asked whether we’ve got it wrong, and this famous shark is actually still alive? If we’ve only properly explored ... Each tooth stood a chance of being covered by sediment and becoming a ...

because they lack preservation of the soft parts needed to identify them as belonging to major groups of animals that are still alive today. The new collection of 514 million year old fossils ...

The Chengjiang biota is famous for its exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils. The likely reason is that these animals were buried by a mudflow very rapidly while they were still alive, entombing ...

Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs. Why are birds the only dinosaurs still alive today? Rare fossil discoveries are revealing the ...

Have you ever peered into the skies, seen a bird swoop gracefully overhead, and wondered, "Are dinosaurs still alive?" It's not such a far-fetched ... adaptability of life and natural selection. The ...

Many people alive today carry traces of Denisovan DNA, but — because fossils of these extinct ancestors are still few and far between — experts in human origins still don’t know exactly what ...

There’s even some that are found as fossils but are also still alive today, like horseshoe crabs (Kabuto) and coelacanths (Relicanth). We learned about the Pokémon Fossil Museum from IGN.