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To: ClearCase_guy

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Tell me, what large animals, or fish species, are still around that thrived 3 million years ago??

Bueller? Bueller???


11 posted on 06/27/2023 2:43:24 PM PDT by sit-rep
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To: sit-rep

Gators and Crocs


12 posted on 06/27/2023 2:50:35 PM PDT by Freedumb
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Bueller replies… two examples..
1. The oldest known coelacanth fossils are over 410 million years old. Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, around 66 million years ago, but were discovered living off the coast of South Africa in 1938.[6][7] and are still caught by fishermen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coelacanth_off_Pumula_on_the_KwaZulu-Natal_South_Coast,_South_Africa,_on_22_November_2019.png

2. Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as living fossils, as they have changed little in the last 445 million years.[8] Forms almost identical to this species were present during the Triassic period 230 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Limulus_polyphemus_horseshue_crab_on_coast.jpg

3million years is a drop in the bucket!


16 posted on 06/27/2023 3:23:39 PM PDT by Atilla_the_Hun (Republics are not republicans, current republicans don’t respect republics. )
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To: sit-rep
Tell me, what large animals, or fish species, are still around that thrived 3 million years ago??

coelacanths.

BTW tuna are warm blooded sorta-kinda.

17 posted on 06/27/2023 3:25:32 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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Coelacanth——410 million year old fossils....still in existence.


19 posted on 06/27/2023 5:12:59 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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