living fossil in a sentence

Examples

1. The ginkgo tree is what scientists call a living fossil.
2. "It really is a living fossil, " said Barbara Briggs, the institution's scientific director.
3. Moreover, the echidna, often described as a living fossil, has hind feet that face backward.
4. Some living fossils are taxa that were known from fossils before living representatives were discovered.
5. In several cases, living fossils are species-poor lineages, but this is not always the case.
6. Because the helodermatids have remained relatively unchanged morphologically, they are occasionally regarded as living fossils.
7. The plant has existed for over 300 million years and is considered a living fossil.
8. The most astonishing sequence showed Vampiroteuthis, the living fossil.
9. It's one of these classic living fossil animals.
10. In the intervening 325 million years, phreatoicideans have changed little, and are thus considered living fossils.