{"id":33128,"date":"2025-02-18T08:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonacuriosa.com.br\/?p=33128"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T11:47:20","slug":"fosseis-vivos-7-animais-que-tem-a-mesma-aparencia-ha-milhares-de-anos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonacuriosa.com.br\/en\/fosseis-vivos-7-animais-que-tem-a-mesma-aparencia-ha-milhares-de-anos\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Fossils: 7 Animals That Have Looked the Same for Thousands of Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mx-5 sm:mx-0 prose text-left mb-5\">\u201cLiving fossils\u201d are animals that look very similar to their fossilized ancestors, maintaining physical characteristics that have remained virtually unchanged over thousands or even millions of years. Here are seven striking examples:<\/p>\n<p>1. **Coelacanth (Latimeria): This prehistoric fish was discovered alive in 1938, after having been thought to be extinct for millions of years. Its appearance is virtually identical to fossils dating back to about 400 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>2. **Tuatara**: Native to New Zealand, the tuatara is a reptile that closely resembles lizards and iguanas, but belongs to a distinct evolutionary lineage that dates back to the time of the dinosaurs, around 200 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>3. **Limulus (Horseshoe Crab)**: Although it looks like a crustacean, the horseshoe crab is actually more closely related to arachnids. Its appearance hasn&#039;t changed much in the last 450 million years.<\/p>\n<p>4. **Nautilus**: This cephalopod mollusk has a spiral shell and is a distant relative of octopuses and squid. Its appearance is similar to that of fossils from the Paleozoic period, more than 500 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>5. **Sturgeon**: Similar in appearance to sharks, sturgeons are known for their bony scales and for being one of the oldest species of fish, having existed for around 200 million years.<\/p>\n<p>6. **Soft-shelled turtles (Pygmy and Alligator snapping turtles): These turtles have an appearance that seems to have remained largely unchanged since the time of the dinosaurs. Their soft-shelled shell distinguishes them from other turtles, giving them a more primitive appearance.<\/p>\n<p>7. **Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus): This amphibian, which can reach enormous sizes, has an appearance that closely resembles its prehistoric ancestors. Its shape and physical characteristics have remained virtually unchanged over millions of years.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Os &#8220;f\u00f3sseis vivos&#8221; s\u00e3o animais que t\u00eam uma apar\u00eancia muito semelhante \u00e0 de seus ancestrais fossilizados, mantendo caracter\u00edsticas f\u00edsicas praticamente inalteradas ao longo de milhares ou at\u00e9 mesmo milh\u00f5es de anos. Aqui est\u00e3o sete exemplos impressionantes: 1. **Celacanto (Latimeria)**: Este peixe pr\u00e9-hist\u00f3rico foi descoberto vivo em 1938, ap\u00f3s ter sido considerado extinto h\u00e1 milh\u00f5es de&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/zonacuriosa.com.br\/en\/fosseis-vivos-7-animais-que-tem-a-mesma-aparencia-ha-milhares-de-anos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Living Fossils: 7 Animals That Have Looked the Same for Thousands of Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":33129,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>F\u00f3sseis vivos: 7 animais que t\u00eam a mesma apar\u00eancia h\u00e1 milhares de anos - Zona Curiosa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zonacuriosa.com.br\/en\/fosseis-vivos-7-animais-que-tem-a-mesma-aparencia-ha-milhares-de-anos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"F\u00f3sseis vivos: 7 animais que t\u00eam a mesma apar\u00eancia h\u00e1 milhares de anos - Zona Curiosa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Os &#8220;f\u00f3sseis vivos&#8221; s\u00e3o animais que t\u00eam uma apar\u00eancia muito semelhante \u00e0 de seus ancestrais fossilizados, mantendo caracter\u00edsticas f\u00edsicas praticamente inalteradas ao longo de milhares ou at\u00e9 mesmo milh\u00f5es de anos. 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