Biology, asked by kalyanip439, 3 months ago

what do we mean by living fossil?​

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Answered by Tanushree1200
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Living fossil- an organism (such as a horseshoe crab or a ginkgo tree) that has remained essentially unchanged from earlier geologic times and whose close relatives are usually extinct.

Other examples of living fossils are single living species that have no close living relatives, but are survivors of large and widespread groups in the fossil record. For example: Ginkgo biloba. Syntexis libocedrii, the cedar wood wasp.

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Fossils can be defined as the remains or traces of the non-degraded parts of ancient living things found within rock life preserved in the Earth’s crust. They are precious gifts from nature and the mother planet. The word Fossils was derived from the Latin language ‘”fossus” meaning “dug up,” These fossils have been preserved by natural processes, and they include shells, bones, imprints of animals on stones, coal, exoskeletons, petrified wood, hair, oil, and DNA remnants.

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