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Living fossil is a term for any living species (or clade) of organism which closely resembles species otherwise only known from fossils has no close living relatives. These species have all survived major extinction events and generally retain low taxonomic diversities.
Some examples of living fossils in animals are - coelocanth, coral (polup), crocodylia (crocodiles, gavials and alligators) horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus), monotremes (theplatypasand echidnas), snout-nosed frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis).
Archaeopteryxis the earliest and most primitive known birds to date. It lived in the Jurassic period around 150-159 million years ago. It has feathers and wings but it also has teeth and a skeleton similar to a small carnivorous dinosaur therefore, it had both bird and theropod dinosaur features archaeopteryx is a powerful piece of evidence that shows that birds have evolved from dinosaurs.