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grateful wolf<p>horseshoe crab? (not a crab) <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/arthropods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arthropods</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/BlueBloods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlueBloods</span></a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/LivingFossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingFossils</span></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsesho</span><span class="invisible">e_crab</span></a><br><a href="https://ecoevo.social/@sarae/113997821697738642" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ecoevo.social/@sarae/113997821</span><span class="invisible">697738642</span></a></p>
ReallyCanadianFly<p>Everything evolves, even if it's not obvious in morphology.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/livingfossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livingfossils</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adaptation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>morphology</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/immunesystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>immunesystems</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/evolutionaryhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionaryhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/evolutionarybiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolutionarybiology</span></a> </p><p>Living Fossils Revealed: The Hidden Evolution of These 4 Ancient Species | Discover Magazine <a href="https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/living-fossils-revealed-the-hidden-evolution-of-these-4-ancient-species?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">discovermagazine.com/planet-ea</span><span class="invisible">rth/living-fossils-revealed-the-hidden-evolution-of-these-4-ancient-species?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</span></a></p>
Matt Willemsen<p>Living fossils: 12 creatures that look the same now as they did millions of years ago <br><a href="https://www.livescience.com/animals/living-fossils-creatures-that-look-the-same-now-as-they-did-millions-of-years-ago" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">livescience.com/animals/living</span><span class="invisible">-fossils-creatures-that-look-the-same-now-as-they-did-millions-of-years-ago</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LivingFossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingFossils</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coelacanth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coelacanth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cockroach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cockroach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoblinShark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoblinShark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ginkgo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ginkgo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nautilus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nautilus</span></a></p>
American Naturalist<p>Ito &amp; Saski have taken many coevolving species of living fossils as flows over a trait space, and developed a new equation to show that living fossils are inevitable byproducts of innovation-driven taxonomic turnovers. Read now for free ahead of print!<br><a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/727046" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1</span><span class="invisible">086/727046</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/coevolving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coevolving</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/species" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>species</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/livingFossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>livingFossils</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/traitSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>traitSpace</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/taxonomicTurnovers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxonomicTurnovers</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Lungfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Lungfish</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/LivingFossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingFossils</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/24/lungfish-australia-methuselah-san-francisco" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/us-news/2023/s</span><span class="invisible">ep/24/lungfish-australia-methuselah-san-francisco</span></a></p>
Thomas Holtz<p><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/NewPaper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewPaper</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Paleontology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleontology</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/Evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evolution</span></a> <a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/tags/LivingFossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingFossils</span></a></p><p>Olivier Rieppel (2023)</p><p>“Living fossils” and the mosaic evolution of characters.</p><p>Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1119418.</p><p>doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1119418" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2023.1119</span><span class="invisible">418</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2023.1119418/full" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/articles/10.33</span><span class="invisible">89/fevo.2023.1119418/full</span></a></p>
RanaldClouston<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FinishedReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FinishedReading</span></a> a fascinating look at <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LivingFossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LivingFossils</span></a>, animals and plants still with us who've maintained their biology since ancient times with few obvious changes. New Zealand features a lot of course, with e.g. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/tuatara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tuatara</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/totara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>totara</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/rimu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rimu</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/rifleman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rifleman</span></a> and of course the wonderfully bizarre <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/velvetworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>velvetworm</span></a> of the title.</p>