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The Amami rabbit, aka Ryukyu rabbit, is only found on Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima, 2 small islands between southern Kyūshū and Okinawa in Japan. These rabbits are frequently called a living fossil. The Amami rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once dwelled on the Asian mainland, where […]

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The volcano rabbit, aka Zacatuche or Teporingo, hails from the mountainous regions of Mexico and is the 2nd smallest known rabbit. With the Colombia Basin pygmy rabbit being the smallest known. Due to a decreasing population of only 7,000 wild individuals, these rabbits are listed as Endangered by the IUCN. […]

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The coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) has been around for approximately 390 million years! These giants have not really evolved much either. There are only 2 known living species of coelacanth: The West Indian Ocean coelacanth and the Indonesian coelacanth. Both species are very rare. The Indian is listed as Critically Endangered […]

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It’s not often that one gets to boast of surviving the age of the dinosaurs, but that’s just what the tuatara can do. They’ve been around for over 60 million years. This is why they get the term living fossils. There are only 2 surviving species of tuatara left in […]

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The Chinese giant salamander is a spectacle to behold. They are living fossils, having lived in the Jurassic period with the dinosaurs over 170 million years ago and surviving the meteor that all but extinguished life from this planet. They are part of 3 giant salamander species: the Japanese giant […]

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