This fish was thought to be extinct millions of years ago until one was found off South Africa in 1938
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Meet the Lazarus creatures  six species we thought were extinct ...  Nov 6, 2015 ... Coelacanth: extinct for millions of years  then found alive. ... as the dinosaurs, but in 1938 one was discovered off the coast of South Africa.
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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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Coelacanth - Wikipedia  The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the ... Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct in the Late Cretaceous, ... million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa. ... was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River (now...
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Curse of the fish that time forgot: Believed to be extinct for 65million ...  Dec 18, 2008 ... Heat cloaked the small South African city of East London like a ... Fossils show coelacanth were alive 400million years ago - 200 million years before the first dinosaurs ... a fish thought to have been extinct for more than 65 million years, .... for coelacanths in the deep water off Sodwana Bay in South Africa,...
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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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December 5, 2008  The "walking" type of this fish, the Clarias batrachus, can travel across dry land in search .... Times;New York Times This 108-year-old magazine that covers hunting & fishing is "The soul of the American outdoors" Field & Stream This magazine...
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African Archaeology News and the latest discoveries at www.african ...  Apr 21, 2013 ... Early Human Ancestors May Have Walked AND Climbed for a ... Humans hunted for meat 2 million years ago (Tanzania, East Africa) 23 .... some of the later beds of the best known fossil and stone tool sites. .... Excavations in progress within the Still Bay levels at Blombos Cave, southern Cape, South Africa.
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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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Marine Biology - Crystalinks  New research shows 33 different families of fish have at least one species that ... A megamouth shark recently washed ashore in the Philippines, giving scientists ... It's a rare frilled shark that has been caught by a fisherman in Australia, where .... For the first time ever, scientists say they have discovered a whale skeleton on...
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Orange Roughy - SeafoodSource.com  Jun 6, 2011 ... This species was first fished commercially off New Zealand, and then ... for the fish formerly known as slimehead  a distinct marketing handicap. ... The fish is distinctive, with its bright-orange skin, spiky fins and bony head.
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The History Of Fishing - OldMaster85  The problems of the modern angler are still those of his ancestor: where to find fish, how ... de Worde of the Treatyse of Fysshynge With an Angle (1496) as a part of the ... The reel was used mainly for casting heavy lures for salmon fishing, but it ... fishing, in which the artificial fly resembles the waterborne form of the insect,...
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1000+ ideas about Steller's Sea Cow on Pinterest | Extinct ...  Eagle Cam ... It was discovered in 1741 by Georg Wilhelm Steller in the Sea of Bering, .... slow moving and easily captured Steller's sea cow was hunted to extinction. .... Steller's Sea Cow: the defenseless beast (extinct species since 1768) ..... sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century.
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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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Exploring The Reef - latimes  Feb 15, 1987 ... YOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollections ... It is a wonder of the world: 1,250 miles long, 2 million years old, the largest structure ever built by living creatures. ... Even though you may have seen tropical fish in aquariums, the...
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Anima1s Part 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  PREHISTORIC CRITTERS $1600: Fossils in Niger indicate the "super" type of this animal was the size of a bus; it often drowned its prey. a crocodile.
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Curse of the fish that time forgot: Believed to be extinct for 65million ...  Dec 18, 2008 ... So she grabbed her assistant, Enoch, and caught a taxi to the wharf. ... a fish thought to have been extinct for more than 65 million years, ... Yes, one or two were dredged up for the ocean depths to become museum pieces. ... But it wasn't until Christmas Eve, 1952, that they found what they were looking for.
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BBC - Earth - The strange flying animals you've never heard of  Feb 18, 2015 ... These sea-dwellers have long wing-like fins, which allow them to coast through ... They aren't much older than bats, having evolved perhaps 65 million ... Wushaichthys, an extinct species of flying fish (Credit: Guang-Hui Xu / Biology Letters). "Over-water gliding adaptations were gradual in nature," says Xu.
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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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Geobulletin: News from the Geoblogosphere [2016-06-29 ]  Fought tooth and nail with misbehaving brushes. ... It was one of the last surviving members of its group, and the only terror bird known to have ... Geology -500-million-year-old fish are the first known fossils of this backboned group of ... mentioned in "Mack the Knife", is Georgia's state fossil & can date back 375 million...
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Coelacanth - Wikipedia  The coelacanths constitute a now rare order of fish that includes two extant species in the ... Since there are only two species of coelacanth and both are threatened, it is the ... Its discovery 66 million years after it was believed to have gone extinct ... Since 1938, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in the Comoros, Kenya,...
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6U. "Ursus spelaeus. The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus ... - Pinterest  It went extinct near the end of the Pleistocene (~10000 years ago). ... Inspired by The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel ... Fossil Cave Bear Tooth #1 Ursus Spelaeus Pleistocene, 80,000 years ago Brasso, Romania Tooth measures approximately ... Fourteen different animal species are depicted in the Chauvet Cave.