All posts by Alice Clement
From coelacanths to crinoids: these 9 ‘living fossils’ haven’t changed in millions of years

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. We see evolution all around us, constantly, in every living thing. Yet in the deep oceans we find a number of “living fossils” reminiscent of creatures from prehistoric times. In his 1859 book On the Origin of Species,…