Fossil Remains of ‘Weird’ Creature with Twisted jaw and Sideways Teeth Discovered The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon jungle. Scientists say the plant eating reptiles now called Tanyka consisted of “living fossils” even when they stalked the Earth around 275 million years ago. A international team of paleontologists recently revealed this strange creature based […] The post Fossil Remains of ‘Weird’ Creature with Twisted jaw and Sideways Teeth Discovered appeared first on Good News Network.

Fossil Remains of ‘Weird’ Creature with Twisted jaw and Sideways Teeth Discovered: The fossilized remains of a creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth have been discovered in the Amazon… @goodnewsnetwork.org #FossilDiscovery #Paleontology #AncientCreatures #Tanyka #LivingFossils

Why Some Species Choose Not to Evolve - In a world where change is constant and survival often depends on adaptation, some species defy expectations. From the horseshoe

Why Some Species Choose Not to Evolve wiobs.com/why-some-spe... #Evolution #ScienceExplained #LivingFossils #Biodiversity #Wildlife

Scientists Captured the First Images of Prehistoric Fish Thought to Be Extinct for 70 Million Years Divers exploring a remote underwater slope in Indonesia have captured something no human has ever filmed before — a mysterious creature thought lost to time, now drifting silently in the ocean's twili...

Divers in Indonesia have captured the first-ever footage of a #Sulawesi #coelacanth, a species thought extinct for 70 million years.

Older than dinosaurs, these #livingfossils reveal that our oceans still hold secrets — and species — hanging by a thread.

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“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...

“Living Fossil” Just Shattered 70 Years of Evolutionary Assumptions #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #LivingFossils #Evolution #BiologyNews

Living Fossils Like the Coelacanth Have Remained Unchanged for 400 Million Years What is a living fossil? Learn more about the living fossils among us and why this topic is highly debated among scientists.

Living Fossils Like the Coelacanth Have Remained Unchanged for 400 Million Years #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #LivingFossils #Evolution #Paleontology

The Palau #nautilus spends its days hiding out in crevices and foraging by night on the reef slope.

Considered to be the most "primitive” #cephalopod, these #livingfossils trace their ancestry back 500 million years.

📹 by Evan Kovacs/Marine Imaging Technologies © #WHOI

7/1/2025: Introduction to the Project + First New Taxon Inclusion Hello and welcome! For this first journal post, I’d like to expand a bit on the goals of this project as outlined in the description. Despite the stated purpose of this project, to document the surviv...

Some species didn’t just survive the asteroid… they've barely changed! Wrote up a journal post about my new iNaturalist project: Cretaceous Critters of North America.

Check it out here →

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#LivingFossils #Paleontology #NaturalHistory #iNaturalist #CitizenScience

I'm a sucker for art of prehistoric turtles, especially on Turtely Tuesday
#art #artistic #turtles #turtle #birds #prehistoric #prehistory #awesome #testudines #turtelytuesday #cute #amazing #nature #environment #livingfossils

Living Fossils? How Crocodiles Survived What Dinosaurs Couldn’t The ancestors of today’s crocodylians survived two mass extinction events. A new study has revealed a key factor behind their long-term survival, offering insights that could help conservationists protect...

Living Fossils? How Crocodiles Survived What Dinosaurs Couldn’t #Science #Biology #EvolutionaryBiology #Crocodiles #LivingFossils #Evolution

Woodlouse House! A.K.A Chiggy Pigs or Armadillo Bugs.

Terrestrial Isopods neither parasitic nor insects! See alt text.

#MacroMonday #chiggypigs #woodlouse #alttext #livingfossils #bugs

Sunrise on beach at low tide this morning with two mating horseshoe crabs & two tracks stretching towards water.

Sunrise on beach at low tide this morning with a track of mating horseshoe crabs stretching towards water.

Sunrise on beach with two mating horseshoe crabs

Closeup of two mating horseshoe crabs nesting in sand

It's #HorseshoeCrab mating season!!! 💕 Saw three couples nesting in sand on my sunrise walk on the beach this morning. Love these #LivingFossils 🥰 🦑🌿🧪🦀

Wait, is this a #SciComm? #LivingFossils😉

These are fun, #Bichir (#Polypteridae) kiss-cut stickers! Seventeen species to choose from, ranging from 10.2cm to 35.6cm in length.
Get them here:
#PrimitiveFishes #livingfossils #Polypeturus

Super excited by the arrival of my #pepeketua NZ frogs learning sheet by Erin Forsyth #TeReo + English & awesome frog facts! #livingfossils