The Living Fossil Of The Sea

[Jazzy]

The coelacanth, a prehistoric fish that was mistakenly thought to have gone extinct, has managed to stick around our seas for 360 million years, and it's barely changed since the time of the dinosaurs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKL1pUHDfo

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Fascinating!

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[DrLeftover]

Another 'living fossil':

14 Fun Facts About Hagfish
In honor of Hagfish Day, learn about the seemingly-disgusting creatures' gill-clogging slime and ability to digest dead carcasses through their skin

7. No one is sure whether hagfish belong to their own group of animals, filling the gap between invertebrates and vertebrates, or if they are more closely related to vertebrates.

8. The only known fossil hagfish, from 300 million years ago, looks very much like a modern hagfish, leading some scientists to speculate that it has changed little since then. “It’s an indication, not that they’ve stalemated and are not evolving, but that they have arrived at a body plan that is still very successful today,” says Tom Munroe, a fish zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-fun-facts-about-hagfish-77165589/?no-ist