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2 matchups tagged living-fossil.

A Hispaniolan solenodon, a brown shrew-like mammal with a long flexible snout and small eyes

A barreleye fish specimen collected from the deep sea, dome not intact

A large glossy black Lord Howe Island stick insect specimen

Hispaniolan Solenodon vs Barreleye vs Lord Howe Tree Lobster: A Venomous Fossil That Smells Like a Goat, a Fish With a See-Through Skull, and a Bug That Came Back From the Dead

A mammal older than the last dinosaurs, a fish that looks up through its own transparent forehead, and the rarest insect on Earth walk into a bar. One leaves with a crown.

6 weeks ago · 5 min

A wild aye-aye clinging to a tree trunk at night, showing its large eyes, big ears, and thin fingers

A Pacific hagfish poking out of a hole on the seafloor at 150 meters depth

A velvet worm (Oroperipatus) photographed in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador, showing its soft segmented body and stubby legs

Aye-Aye vs Hagfish vs Velvet Worm: A Skeleton Finger, a Snot Bomb, and a 500-Million-Year-Old Glue Gun

One mammal, one jawless fish, one ancient invertebrate. Three completely unrelated ways to be deeply upsetting.

7 weeks ago · 5 min

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