Twelve Amazing Fossils That are Actually Living

re: Twelve Amazing Fossils That are Actually Living

Robin Stobbs — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:55:46 GMT

Wow! Hold on there. The coelacanth fossil record dates back some 400m years but ended around 60/70m years ago. The living Genus, Latimeria, does not appear in the fossil record so there is no way of knowing how long the two species have been around.

re: Twelve Amazing Fossils That are Actually Living

Islander — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:27:38 GMT

Velvet worms? Duckbilled platypus? You couldn't make this stuff up!

What an incredible diversity of life on earth! Imagine being so perfectly adapted to your environment that you can survive unchanged for 500 million years!

re: Twelve Amazing Fossils That are Actually Living

4Hand Healthy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:10:30 GMT

Ages of species and dates are mere guesses at best.Science is interesting,but who really knows how long the different species have been around?!!

re: Twelve Amazing Fossils That are Actually Living

bmc — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:36:24 GMT

My 5 yr old has had a pack of stretchy, rubber frogs for about two years now. They are red, yellow, blue, green, and purple. Up until today we thought that the purple frog was the only color that did not actually exist. He and I were excited to discover we were mistaken :)