Article: Tuatara: A Living Fossil.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: New species of 'living fossil' once thought extinct ...
AP Worldstream;  May 19, 2006 ;     425 words ... ... extinct 60 million years ago. The "living fossil," a female baptized Neoglyphea Neocaledonica ... in a statement. Another so-called living fossil from the Neoglyphea group was discovered ... Forges found the new species of the same living fossil group while trolling an undersea plateau ...

Article: "Living fossil of fish" Chinese sturgeons debut in ...
Xinhua News Agency;  June 20, 2008 ;     515 words ..."Living fossil of fish" Chinese sturgeons debut in Hong Kong HONG KONG, June 20 ... their first appearance in Hong Kong's Ocean Park Friday. Known as "living fossil of fish" or "Giant Panda in the water", the Chinese sturgeons ...

Article: 'Living Fossil' Mouse Found on Cyprus
AP Online;  October 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... the arrival of man on Cyprus and could be considered a "living fossil," experts said. "New mammal species are mainly discovered ... endemic rodent still alive, and as such can be considered as a living fossil," said Cucchi. Shrews resemble mice but have a long ...

Article: Living fossil has both short and long-term memories
The Hindustan Times;  June 1, 2008 ;     467 words ... ... A new research has determined that Nautilus, which is a living fossil, has both short term and long-term memories. Nautilus ... sophisticated cephalopods, Crook and Basil decided to test the living fossil's memory. Training Nautilus pompilus to associate the ...

Article: Living fossil found trapped in mud near ...
Cape Times (South Africa);  October 27, 2006 ;     495 words ... ... Kalideen JOHANNESBURG: The coelacanth is no longer the only living fossil fish swimming in our oceans. A recent discovery has now ... a fish which sucks the blood off other fish, is also a living fossil. After decades of painstaking work, Wits University PhD ...

Article: 'Living Fossil' Trees Let Experts Leaf Through Past
The Washington Post;  February 3, 2001 ;     417 words ... ... district. SYDNEY -- Botanists have found a stand of "living fossil" trees from a species dating to prehistoric times in ... Sydney in 1994, when botanists discovered a stand of living fossil trees known as the Wollemi Pines.

Article: "LIVING FOSSIL" TREE MAY PROVIDE CLUES TO PAST AND ...
The Hindustan Times;  October 31, 2008 ;     672 words ... ... Washington, Oct. 31 -- (ANI): With the help of a "living fossil" tree species, a researcher from the University of Michigan ... Michigan.Symphonia globulifera, which is referred to as the "living fossil", is a widespread tropical tree with a history that goes ...