This primitive fish was believed extinct until caught off the African coast in 1938
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Coelacanths, Coelacanth Pictures, Coelacanth Facts - National ...  Thought to have been long extinct, scientists discovered these "living fossils" in 1938. ... The primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought ... 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated ... Islands off the east coast of Africa, and one found in the waters off Sulawesi,...
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Smithsonian Institution - The Coelacanth: More Living than Fossil  The first living coelacanth was discovered in 1938 and bears the scientific name ... in the Western Indian Ocean between Madagascar and the east coast of Africa, ... thought to be about a year in duration during which time the embryos feed off the ... primitive osteichthyans or bony fishes (as opposed to a cartilaginous fishes,...
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Coelacanth facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  A coelacanth (pronounced SEE-luh-kanth) is a large, primitive fish found in ... Described as a "living fossil" and once thought to be extinct, this deep-sea fish is believed to ... Until 1938, most scientists believed the coelacanth had disappeared along ... off the eastern coast of South Africa caught a 5-foot (1.5-meter) fish with...
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Coelacanth - Wikipedia  The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa (Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian ... Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous,...
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Photos of Rare Fish May Be Clue to Evolution - NYTimes.com  Sep 24, 1987 ... LEAD: Primitive fish once believed to have died out long before the demise of ... The extinct rhipidistian fishes, also members of the crossopterygian line ... Strange Catch Off Africa. In 1938, however, a fisherman near the southern coast of Africa netted a strange fish, the remains of which reached a biologist.
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Coelacanths, the World's Only Living "Extinct" Fish - Dinosaurs  Long though to be extinct, a living Coelacanth was dredged up from the Indian Ocean in 1938. Here are 10 fascinating Coelacanth facts.
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1000+ ideas about Steller's Sea Cow on Pinterest | Extinct, Extinct ...  Steller's Sea Cow Hydrodamalis gigas extinct | Steller's Sea Cow .... Was hunted to extinction around 1768. .... The sea cows were rapidly hunted for food, skins (used to make boats) and oil ... This peaceful relative of Dugong and Manatee, up to 9 meters long, was ..... The extinct Steller's Sea Cow by Nicolas Primola. 2. 1...
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Comeback Bird|Richard_F|richard@cfz.org.uk|06/11/05 at 02:05:31 ...  Jun 11, 2005 ... Since the last widely accepted sighting in Louisiana in 1944, the bird had become the UFO of ornithology, ... The ivory-billed has been on the endangered species list since March 1967. ... Eastern Arkansas also boasts remote swamps containing old trees. ..... The bird was thought to be extinct for about 60
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Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) - Pictures and facts - Fish ...  More. Coelacanths appeared about 350 million years ago and were thought to have become extinct 80 million years ago until one was caught in 1938 near the ... Since then, fossils of some 125 species of coelacanth have turned up, dating from ... Up until 1938 the coelacanth was thought to have become extinct about...
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Living Fossils - Angelfire  They were believed to have been extinct for millions of years. ... One of my favorite "living fossils" is the Okapi. The okapi was once thought to have been extinct until they were found still living. ... The Coelacanth (see-lah-kanth) is a fish caught in South Africa in 1939 off ... ( they think dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago !).
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Coelacanths, Coelacanth Pictures, Coelacanth Facts - National ...  Thought to have been long extinct, scientists discovered these "living fossils" in 1938. ... was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But its discovery in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local ... one that lives near the Comoros Islands off the east coast of Africa, and one found in the...
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The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin  Page 27  The scientists of the great lakes fisheries commission plan this year to use ... The lamphrey, a primitive, eel-like fish, has been in the St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario ... A breakdown by age groups shows that nearly 43 per cent of the violators ... hauled into court for fishing without a license than for any other single cause.
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Australopithecus africanus | The Smithsonian Institution's Human ...  Australopithecus africanus lived about 3.3 to 2.1 million years ago. ... The Taung child, found in 1924, was the first to establish that early fossil humans ... keratic = horn) in the 1940s and 1950s because remains of this species were found ... 1980s, other scientists began to recognize that predators such as lions, leopards,...
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Coelacanths, Coelacanth Pictures, Coelacanth Facts - National ...  Thought to have been long extinct, scientists discovered these "living fossils" in ... Type: Fish; Diet: Carnivore; Average life span in the wild: Up to 60 years ... But its discovery in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local ... There are only two known species of coelacanths: one that lives near the ... Animal News.
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Fishes of Bermuda - Smithsonian  Oct 25, 2013 ... notes and watercolors of Bermuda fishes (1847-51) have great scientific value as the first attempt to accurately ... G. Brown Goode and Tarleton. H. Bean ... they subsequently (Goode and Bean 1878) named ... under Henry Linder, curator of the Museum at .... (2005) confirms that there is only one species of.
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The Pearl of Allah | Natural History Magazine  The giant clam yielded its 14-pound pearl only after slaying a native diver trapped ... We had pitched camp on the seventh day of May, 1934, and that night after ... tribe, had brought his hungry people only a few days ago to fish in these waters. ... Suspecting a giant octopus, they unsheathed their knives and, as one, dove...
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What does the fossil record show? - BioLogos  At 500 million years ago, ancient fish without jawbones surface; and at 400 million years ... Fossils of land animals, or tetrapods, first appear in rocks that are about 370 ... But in 1998, scientists found a fossilized fin, 370 million years old, with eight ... One group of reptiles, the cynodonts, first appeared about 260 million years...
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A monster's tale - The Boston Globe - Boston.com  Nov 9, 2008 ... BURLINGTON, Vt. -The ancient creature attaches itself to the body of its prey ... the skin with its chisel of a tongue, and then slowly sucks out the victim's blood. ... an eel-like fish that evolved in the ocean tens of millions of years before the first dinosaurs, but is thriving today in freshwater Lake Champlain.
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Top Ten Extinct Animals | OneKind  Here we have listed 10 animals that are now extinct, find out the reasons why. ... Animal extinction may have been caused by natural occurrences such as climatic .... Although not officially recorded as extinct, no one has seen a Yangtze River ... Its ancestors migrated out of Africa about 3.5 million years ago, spreading...
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Greatest Fish Story ever Told: "Discovery" of the Coelacanth  On December 23rd, 1938, the Nerine entered port after a stint trawling off the ... the few reference books on hand, Marjorie found a picture that, she has said, ... Her specimen bore similarities to a prehistoric fish, particularly in the ... However, in an attempt to preserve the fish by mounting it, the innards had been discarded.
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2 Mar 2011 - SpiffingSailor  Euterpe (now Star of India) survives today as the oldest active sailing ship in the ... During this storm her top masts were cut away to keep her from foundering. ... The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869  which lopped 4,000 miles off the sea ... On the 3-4 week return trip she brought back the same passengers and a hold...