“Living Fossil” Just Shattered 70 Years of Evolutionary Assumptions

Researchers have reexamined the skull musculature of coelacanths, a lineage of fish dating back 400 million years, and discovered that many anatomical structures had been previously misidentified. The coelacanth, often called a “living fossil,” has remained anatomically similar for over 65 million years. While it is one of the most extensively examined fish in scientific [...]

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