Sentences with phrase «coelacanths with»

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Evolutionist claimed the 350 million - year - old Coelacanth evolved into animals with legs, feet, and lungs.

Biologists studying fossils in the 19th century thought that coelacanths, with their fleshy ventral and pectoral fins, were likely to have been the first fish to crawl out of the sea.

Eugene Balon of the University of Guelph in Canada says that a female coelacanth starts with some 20 fertilised eggs in its oriduct.

These include such sensational cases as the 1938 finding of a living coelacanth, a fish that was presumed to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs; the 1966 discovery of Australia's mountain pygmy possum, previously known only from bones found in a cave; and the 1951 rediscovery of the cahow, or Bermuda petrel, then thought to have been extinct since the 1620s.

Recent fossil discoveries have shown that hands and feet evolved from an extinct ancestral fish with asymmetric fins, but the question of how the coelacanth got its symmetrical fins remained.

Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, professor in comparative genomics and director at SciLifeLab in Uppsala, has led the studies where an international consortium of researchers mapped the coelacanth genome and compared it with the DNA of terrestrial vertebrates.

«And then we get complete sets of lineages we are quite familiar with: coelacanths, also lungfish, and of course our direct ancestors the tetrapods (every land vertebrate ever, plus birds, bats, dolphins and whales).»

Dr. Mark Erdmann first saw a coelacanth in Indonesia in September 1997, while on his honeymoon at Seabreeze Resort with his wife, Arnaz.

«The name of the work — which translates to «Coelacanth causes seaquake» — has to do with a fish, and the sea and water; it relates well to the swimming pool, which is also covered with tiles.»