living fossil in a sentence
Examples
- It would also be considered a living fossil if it closely resembles the earliest members of its lineage.
- It really is a living fossil,
- "The cycad is a living fossil from the Mesozoic age, and we've got the world's second-largest public collection.
- "It's a living fossil of one of the first vertebrates that made the transition onto land, " he says.
- A living fossil is an Lingula ", though the living species in this genus are not identical to fossil brachiopods.
- It is far from certain that the Ptilocolepinae are the living fossils such an arrangement would imply them to be.
- Sometimes called a " living fossil ", it is the only family Mitsukurinidae, a lineage some 125 million years old.
- The park is the main habitat of Welwitchia Mirabilis, a plant sometimes referred to as a " living fossil ".
- Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as living fossils, as they have changed little in the last 445 million years.
- It's a very exciting find and it's a real living fossil, " said botanist Ken Hill of the botanic gardens.