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Time for a sea change.

Anyone else have a favorite living fossil?

My favorite fossils Amaranth are radiolaria

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&q=radiolaria&sa=N&tab=wi

Radiolaria are amoeboid protozoa that produce intricate mineral skeletons, typically with a central capsule dividing the cell into inner and outer portions, called endoplasm and ectoplasm. They are found as plankton throughout the ocean, and their shells are important fossils found from the Cambrian onwards.

Specifically I like Spongaster tetras tetras

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=spongaster+tetras+tetras

It's an Upper Pliocene fossil living Recent

http://www.pangaea.de/PangaVista?query=Spongaster+tetras+tetras

Thank you for the sea of change

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing. They're beautiful in a spiky sort of way.