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A South African cycad (Encephalartos)
Photo by N. Nagalingum
Cycads are poster-child living fossils, yet the living species are really young… so, while the group as a whole are living fossils, the species themselves are not.
Cycads are not “living fossils” from Dinosaur Age
22 Saturday Oct 2011
Posted in paleontology
nutmegstumbles 
You were quick off the mark, it’s taken me a week since the paper release to report! Nice quote, as intricate as the cycad cone itself, is it yours?
http://jkendrickensis.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/near-synchronous-recent-spread-of-cycads-surprises-scientists/
The quote was from the Berkeley news release – I’m not that good with words!