Mine would have the be the coelacanth, the big blue fish.

http://www.dinofish.com/

A challenge. Post your favorite "living fossil" with a link to a website about it. Let's put some science in Scienceagogo.

Well being as the coelacanth has gone already I'll go for the Wollemi Pine

Info Here

Official site Here

Didn't everybody grow up petting these fellas on school fieldtrips?

Horseshoecrabs

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/education/horseshoecrab/

I'm a long-time fan of the Lycopodium genus (club moss, princess pine, etc.) I believe they *ruled the forests* back during the Carboniferous

Scroll on down the page for a few different varieties: http://wisplants.uwsp.edu/scripts/search...amp;sortdir=ASC

Well there's no Fossil like an old fossil, especially when its a Goverment minister.
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But Soilguy (above) has got it right.
The most amazing fossil is called 'Rose of Jericho' or 'Resurrection plant' or 'Dinosaur Plant' the original genus 'Lepidodendron' was tree size and eaten by Dinosaurs millions of years ago

It still lives today, in the deserts of Mexico Israel and Egypt. It survives, unseen for hundreds of years without water, shrivelled brown, and appearing dead.
But give it water and it springs into life within 24 hours, growing green and maturing to the size of a large egg cup. If it dries out, it just curls up and 'dies' for another few hundred years.

These amazing plants are sometimes found for sale, due to their unique ability to live, die, and live indefinately for hundreds even thousands of years. Very easy to keep

I have found sites which sells them for a few dollars each....well worth buying if you are really interested.
To buy in UK
http://www.iwoot.co.uk/DINPLA.htm

Buy in USA
http://www.dunecraft.com/resources/dino_plant_single_instructions.htm
USA
http://www.windowbox.com/products/dinosaur-plant-grow-kit/
:p :rolleyes:

Now that sounds like a plant that even I could not kill! Thanks for the links, Mike.