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15 living fossils that outlasted the dinosaurs entirely
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The article highlights 15 species known as 'living fossils' that have survived multiple mass extinctions over hundreds of millions of years. These animals, such as horseshoe crabs and lampreys, have remained largely unchanged throughout evolutionary history.
Horseshoe crabs, nautiluses, sturgeon, lampreys — the species so well-adapted that hundreds of millions of years and multiple mass extinctions haven't changed them
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