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fósil viviente
Any species discovered first as a fossil and believed extinct, but which is later found living; an organism that has remained unchanged over geological periods.
The coelacanth and the dawn redwood are living fossils.
[I]n fresh water we find some of the most anomalous forms now known in the world, as the Ornithorhynchus and Lepidosiren, which, like fossils, connect to a certain extent orders no…
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