The research also highlighted slow rates among sturgeon and paddlefish—other examples of living fossils that haven’t enjoyed quite the same level of research as gars. This slow evolution may ...

Fossils don’t just show how living things have changed; they can also help us understand how the Earth has changed. Over millions of years the Earth’s surface shifts and changes. For example ...

When fossil remains were found that were unlike anything living at the time, some scientists argued that they were unusual examples of living creatures, or that animals known only from fossils ...