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7 paź 2021 · Living fossils are among the oldest animals in the ocean. They are rare survivors of ancient lineages and resemble fossils dating back hundreds of millions of years. Many scientists believe these creatures give us a glimpse of what marine life was like long ago.
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They were predators, stalking and feeding on crustaceans and other sea creatures, using long arms that would extend from their hard shells. Large marine reptiles would have lived in the ocean alongside ammonites, including ichthyosaurs and long-necked plesiosaurs.
Like the whale shark and basking shark of today, the large shrimp-like creature called Tamisiocaris borealis was a filter feeder, and likely the first ever to live in the ocean. Scientists think the feather-like structures on its head were used to rake plankton from the sea.
7 gru 2021 · Plesiosaurs had no gills so they had to come up to the surface for air just like marine mammals do today. That isn’t the only thing they have in common with modern dolphins and whales. A fossil found of a pregnant plesiosaur gives us evidence to support that these creatures gave birth to live young.
9 paź 2022 · These marine animals, also known as “sea lilies”, once lived on the seafloor in a symbiotic relationship with corals. Corals grew off the stalks of crinoids to reach higher into the water ...
4 dni temu · In 1998, a second living species of coelacanth, Latimeria menadoensis (named ikan raja laut, the king fish of the sea, in Indonesian), was discovered off the island of Sulawesi, in Indonesia.
The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset's Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150...
