Have you ever seen a three-eyed lizard?
Have you ever seen a shark that looks so weird?
There is also this kind of pig-like aardvark, but it feeds on ants
Next, let Xiaobian take you to see the ten living fossil creatures that exist on the earth.
It is said that few people know more than five
Tenth place, platypus
This is a mammal that appeared twenty-five million years ago, with a duck's mouth, a beaver's body, and webbing between its toes as if stitched together. Even Darwin was once puzzled by this creature, and what people did not expect was that such a hairy mammal would reproduce its offspring by laying eggs.
Ninth place, aardvark
Also known as the African eater, this is a mammal that appeared during the dinosaur period. It has a pig's head, donkey ears and kangaroo body, and usually feeds mainly on ants and termites. Although his body length is no more than five meters, he is extremely good at punching holes, and he can punch holes faster than ten adults who use hoes and pickaxes
Eighth place, Gabrin shark. Also known as Gull's Harrier Gum
It was a deep-sea creature that appeared 1.2 and 500 million years ago, and his head had an eerie long snout. When hunting, the upper and lower jaws will quickly eject forward, and the speed of the ejection reaches a staggering 0.16 seconds. It is currently the fastest of all fish.
Seventh, beaked lizard
It is a reptile that has existed since the early Triassic. Currently only built on some small islands in New Zealand, it is about 70 cm long and weighs only about one kilogram, unlike lizards. It has a third eye on the top of its head and can close like a normal eye.
Even scientists don't understand what it does.
Sixth place, baby fish
This is an ancient species that evolved from aquatic fish 3.6 billion years ago. As the world's largest amphibian, the baby fish can find the largest individual more than two meters, and it can be sucked into streams or caves below 1,000 meters above sea level for a long time. Don't look at their usual slow movements, in fact, they are extremely fierce, once their prey is bitten by his fangs, there is almost no possibility of escape, and their lifespan is also the longest among amphibians, the world's largest baby fish, said to have lived for nearly one hundred and thirty years.
It's incredible.
Fifth place, lamprey
Lampreys first appeared in the Carboniferous Period, 3.6 billion years ago. The serpentine body, the large mouth of the disc covered with teeth, and the blood-sucking properties similar to water quality made people think that it was an alien species from heterogeneous space. Because of its uniform, well-distributed gill holes behind the eyes. That's why people figuratively call it lamprey
Fourth place, coelacanth
This is an ancient fish that first appeared 370 million years ago. Scientists once thought it was all terrestrial vertebrates, and ancestors said he was extinct as a 6500 million-year-old Cretaceous stone.
It wasn't until 1938 that fishermen caught a live coelacanth off the coast of South Africa, and the news spread around the world in an instant. Subsequently, news of coelacanths was caught around the world, and it was eventually confirmed that coelacanths were not extinct, but perhaps only temporarily hidden.
The third place, the horseshoe, is also known as the horseshoe line
But the horseshoe crab is not a crab, it is an arthropod that first appeared 430 million years ago, with a blue-brown or dark brown body and covered by a hard carapace. It is related to scorpion spiders as well as the extinct trilobite. It is worth mentioning that their blood is mysteriously blue because it is rich in copper ions, which has extremely high medical value
Second place, Sea Lily
It is an echinoderm that first appeared 480 million years ago. Usually they like to stand quietly on the seabed, you think it is a plant, but in fact it is an animal. As soon as it senses danger is coming, it automatically unloads its body and crawls around the seabed with its furry brachiopods until it finds the next place where it thinks it is safe. Their appearance has hardly changed in hundreds of millions of years.
First nautilus
He first appeared in the Cambrian Period 500 million years ago, his body was wrapped in a pearl-like shell, smooth and curly, the head structure was very similar to that of a squid, and the overall appearance resembled a parrot, so it was called a parrot by people.
Although it has lived on the earth for hundreds of millions of years, its appearance and habits have not changed much, and it has high value in the study of evolution and paleontology.
All right
This is the end of this issue
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