Some animals have been around since the time of the dinosaurs—and they’re still thriving today! Known as “living fossils,” these creatures have barely changed over millions of years and continue to ...

What if one of the most iconic “living fossils” has been misleading evolutionary biology for decades? The African coelacanth, for a long time considered a key to the distant past, is now in the middle ...

The sturgeon is an ancient and iconic species of fish. Long and bony, with a body covered in armored plates known as scutes, the sturgeon has been called a “living fossil” with evolutionary roots ...