The coelacanth
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Coelacanth - Deep Sea Creatures on Sea and Sky  The strange-looking coelacanth is considered to be a living fossil. Known scientifically as Latimeria chalumnae, they were thought have been extinct since the...
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Coelacanths, Coelacanth Pictures, Coelacanth Facts - National ...  The primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But its discovery in...
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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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The Creature Feature: 10 Fun Facts About the Coelacanth | WIRED  Mar 2, 2015 ... The coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) is an enormous, bottom-dwelling fish that is unlike other living fishes in a number of ways.
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COELACANTH: THE FISH OUT OF TIME: DINOFISH.com  Apr 29, 2016 ... COELACANTH; A prehistoric fish once thought to be extinct found living in modern times. The Coelacanth Rescue Mission strives to preserve...
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12 of the most astounding 'living fossils' known to science  Jan 22, 2014 ... Though not often considered a living fossil, cyanobacteria have been kicking ... Biologists say these are the oldest known animals  and not sea sponges as ... Coelacanths ... milii, are members of a branch of cartilaginous fish known as chimaeras. ... Horseshoe crabs are the quintessential living fossils.
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'A^ us SNITHSONIANSCJENTIFIC SERIES Editor-in-chiefCHARLES ...  The Tuatara 296IX. ... Deep-sea fishes off Nonsuch Island, Bermuda . .... It is customary to call bythis name all animalsthat live in water, especi-ally if they have a com-mercial ..... All the species have a row ofsmall gill arches, whose single external opening is ...... New Zealand,tuatara being the Maori word for "having spines.
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Moray - Cosmeo  Common name for about 110 species of marine eels (see EEL,), of the family ... (Certain species have teeth modified for crushing hard-shelled animal forms.)...
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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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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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Observations on the African Lung-Fish, Protopterus thiopicus, and ...  teleostome fishes, and persists today in many primitive fishes which lack efficient means ... evidence to indicate that the respiratory organ has been acquired independently ... this I mean instinct, or structure is the more conservative in evolution." ..... Under these conditions, as soon as the lung-fish rises for its first breath of air.
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Coelacanth facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  Until December 1938, the coelacanth was known only by the fossil record that ... It was identified scientifically as part of the extinct sub-class of Crossopterygii ... caused so much excitement was that in 1938 the coelacanth was thought to be a ... this strange creature seems to be a combination of two very different types of...
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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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The Loch Ness Monster Legacy | Search of Life  Jul 3, 2014 ... She, for the Scottish monster is always seen as a not-so-wee lassie, ... she has been too shy to debut in a major scientific investigation. ... whom he claimed to be a plesiosaur or something close to that. ... It is agreed that a breeding colony of beasts would be needed to continue its existence, and some...
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Timeline of human evolution - Wikipedia  The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the development of the human .... Subtribe  Hominina, Genus Homo and close human relatives and ancestors after splitting from Panthe hominins, 2.5 ... 410 Ma, The first coelacanth appears; this order of animals had been thought to have no extant members...
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The Invertebrate Animals - Kimball's Biology Pages  Roundworms (Phylum Nematoda); Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda) ... The cavity is also called a coelenteron and for many years the name of this phylum was Coelenterata. There is ... Turbellaria, free-living forms of which the planarian (right) is a ... The diagram gives the life cycle of the blood fluke, Schistosoma mansoni.
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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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List of largest fish - Wikipedia  The largest living lobe-finned fish is the coelacanth. The average weight of the living West Indian Ocean coelacanth, (Latimeria chalumnae), is 80 kg (180 lb), and they can reach up to 2 m (6.6 ft) in length. Specimens can measure up to 110 kg (240 lb). The largest lobe-finned fish of all time was Hyneria at up to 5 m (16 ft). .... Slender, with a huge spine, these fish can reach 2.1 m (6.9 ft) long and can...
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Jellyfish and Other Coelenterates - Scholastic  Their traces have been found in rocks nearly 7 million years old. ... A coelenterate that does not have stinging cells can grasp small animals that swim into its ... Most of these colonies remain in one place, their tentacles capturing prey that ... Freshwater hydras are small solitary polyps that live in ponds, lakes, and streams.
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Coelacanths are not living fossils | Ecologica  Aug 24, 2013 ... Commonly cited examples include horseshoe crabs, Ginkgo trees, ... most famous of all, the coelacanths, a group of lobe finned fish with a very long ... That all changed one day in 1938 when a South African museum ... is inhabited by other species which are not considered living fossils. ... About these ads...