Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as “living fossils”, as their appearance has not changed in more than 400 million years. The researchers found that the ocean-dwelling Asian horseshoe ...

via Wikimedia Commons Horseshoe crabs are often described as living fossils, and for good reason. They have existed for approximately 450 million years, predating not just sharks but also dinosaurs.

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KENDRAPARA: The Zoological Society of India (ZSI) in collaboration with the Forest department on Tuesday tagged 12 horseshoe crabs at Talachua fishing jetty in Bhitarkanika National Park here to track ...

Now, a new discovery offers a clearer picture of their external appearance: Scientists re-examined an old plesiosaur fossil, which had been sitting in a museum’s storage for decades, and ...

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New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the first time, the widespread occurrence of biofluorescence in birds-of ...

Although scientists have uncovered a number of transitional fossils of bird-like animals, precisely what was the first bird is a complicated question to answer. Birds and non-avian dinosaurs are ...

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