Experts who encountered "living fossils" in Qingdao said it was basically determined to be Wenchang fish: the species has survived on the earth for hundreds of millions of years

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Qilu Network Lightning News June 17 news Recently, when a netizen was rushing to the sea in Qingdao, he encountered a Wenchang fish known as "a living fossil in the history of biological evolution".

It is understood that the Wenchang fish is small, only 3-6 cm long, the body is translucent, the head and tail are pointed, there is a delicate and transparent beauty in the shape, it belongs to the ancient chordate, which has appeared as early as 520 million years ago, and is the closest living species to the vertebrate, which can be called "living fossils in the history of biological evolution".

Wenchang fish belongs to the national second-level protected animals, mainly distributed in Fujian, Qingdao and other places in China, as well as the Beibu Gulf, the northern coast of the Bohai Sea. As early as August 2004, in order to protect the rare Wenchang fish resources, the state established the Wenchang Fish Nature Reserve in Qingdao. The sea area is rich in natural sea sand resources, coupled with the strong water exchange capacity of the Qianhai Sea in Jiaozhou Bay and the stable hydrological conditions, which is very conducive to the growth and reproduction of Wenchang fish.