Question

A living fossil is a/an:

• A. Stuffed animal of the past
• B. Dead animal of the past
• C. Animal that has survived through the passage of time
• D. Laboratory preserved animal

Answer 1

The correct option is C Animal that has survived through the passage of time

A living fossil is a living organism that belongs to an otherwise extinct group. A unique feature of a living fossil is that, in spite of belonging to a group of a past geological age, it exhibits little evolutionary change (which means that it still exhibits most of the characteristic features of its respective group). Horseshoe crabs and coelacanth fish are two commonly known living fossils.