To be considered a living fossil, the fossil species must be old relative to the time of origin of the extant clade. Living fossils commonly are of species-poor...

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis, lit. 'obtained by digging') is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past...

sharply differentiated by gross anatomy and mode of living from the ancestral group. These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human...

fossils (also known as guide fossils or indicator fossils) are fossils used to define and identify geologic periods (or faunal stages). Index fossils...

"Living Fossil" is a science fiction story by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, on the concepts of human extinction and future evolution. It was first...

the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geologic time,...

April 2024. Fossil was founded in 1984 as Overseas Products International by Tom Kartsotis, a former Texas A&M University student living in Dallas from...

dictionary. A trace fossil, also called an ichnofossil (/ˈɪknoʊˌfɒsɪl/; from Ancient Greek ἴχνος (íkhnos) 'trace, track'), is a fossil record of biological...

is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago. Fossils very similar to the living species, belonging...

branch of botany dealing with the recovery and identification of plant fossils from geological contexts, and their use for the biological reconstruction...

example of a "living fossil" in popular science because it was considered the sole remaining member of a taxon otherwise known only from fossils (a biological...

The fossil trade is the purchase and sale of fossils. This is at times done illegally with stolen fossils, and important scientific specimens are lost...

years, nautiluses represent the only living members of the subclass Nautiloidea, and are often considered "living fossils". The arm crown of modern nautilids...

A fossil fuel is a flammable carbon compound- or hydrocarbon-containing material formed naturally in the Earth's crust from the buried remains of prehistoric...

Fossil collecting (sometimes, in a non-scientific sense, fossil hunting) is the collection of the fossils for scientific study, hobby, or profit. Fossil...

fossil record, and yet is still living, such an organism is sometimes referred to as a living fossil. However, a relict need not be currently living....

interpretations of "longest-living", such as the length of time between the earliest appearance of a species in the fossil record and the present (the...

R. (1984). "Cephalocarida: living fossil without a fossil record". In N. Eldredge; S. M. Stanley (eds.). Living Fossils. New York: Springer Verlag. pp...

were found alive in central China. It is a well-known example of a living fossil species. Modern dawn redwood appears identical to its late Cretaceous...

Fossil wood, also known as fossilized tree, is wood that is preserved in the fossil record. Over time the wood will usually be the part of a plant that...

This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single...

Living dinosaur may refer to: Birds, the only known living dinosaurs Living fossils, extant taxa that closely resemble organisms otherwise known only...

with living representatives (approximately 30) were discovered before 1900. Jenkins et al. did not compare the specimens to known rodent fossils. After...

world. Although often described as a "living fossil", there are no unambiguous fossils of Wollemia and potential fossil records of it have been considered...

shield shrimp. The two genera, Triops and Lepidurus, are considered living fossils, with similar forms having existed since the end of the Devonian, around...

The following tables give an overview of notable finds of hominin fossils and remains relating to human evolution, beginning with the formation of the...

plants are not fully resolved. The ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is a living fossil, with fossils similar to the modern plant dating back to the Permian, 270 million...

subfamily Sequoioideae. M. glyptostroboides is the only living species in its genus, but three fossil species are known. Sequoioideae and several other genera...

shark, Chlamydoselachus africana). The frilled shark is considered a living fossil, because of its primitive, anguilliform (eel-like) physical traits,...

Paleodictyon is a trace fossil, usually interpreted to be a burrow, which appears in the geologic marine record beginning in the Precambrian/Early Cambrian...