For so-called “living fossils”, the maxim “if it ain’t broken, don’t fix it” would seem to apply. Surviving relatively unchanged for tens, even hundreds of millions of years, these very special plants and animals have each managed to find a successful ecological niche and have stuck with it.
You can trash dumpsters all you like (see what we did there?) but even these much-denigrated, flame spewing and dive-worthy…
