A Strange-Looking Fish, Frozen In Time
The term “living fossil” has been applied to any number of animals, from sharks to turtles to the coelacanth. It’s the idea that those animals look very much the same way their species may have looked millions of years ago, with limited evolutionary change over that time. After analyzing the genomes of many different…
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