The World's Oldest "Living Fossil" Is Shaking Up Conventional Evolutionary Theories

Scitech Daily ^ | September 12, 2024 | Flinders University

[SunkenCiv]

There are plant species that have, uh, ginkgo (maidenhair tree), and sago palm ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycas ) which were popular as house plants in Victorian times (if memory serves they’re not too fussy about temp swings and light levels).

[blam]

When I was a kid we had a set of encyclopedias that had a whole page dedicated to a $100,000 reward for one of these fish. Of course, since then they have caught/found numerous.

I was fascinated by that reward

[SunkenCiv]

:^) That’s one reason encyclopedias were expensive back then. :^)

[EinNYC]

They have never been able to keep one alive for long after being brought up in a net, and kept for study.

That is because there is a large difference in water pressure where they live and the surface. They cannot live in the lower pressure water.