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Joel
Kontinen
A living fossil
has been found that can grow as large as an alligator, and it has a strong armour
that it survived the death of the dinosaurs when an asteroid killed them in "66million years" ago according to evolutionary speculation.
Its name is Alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula) and it lives in the south of the USA, and in Mexico, it grows to about 24 metres or eight feet long and can be mistaken for a ferocious alligator but it only eats crabs and little fish, turtles and carrion.
Source:
Melissa Hobson 2024. Alligator gar: The 'living fossil' that has barely evolved for 100 million years (msn.com) 6. October.
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