Sentences with phrase «coelacanth off»
Thought to be extinct since the end of the cretaceous period over 65million years ago, in 1938 a fisherman caught a live coelacanth off the coast of South Africa near Madagascar.
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The new species was discovered a mere 100 km from the mouth of the Chalumna River, off which the type specimen of Latimeria chalumnae (the first discovered modern coelacanth) was caught in 1938.
Once thought to be extinct in the same event that killed off the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago, the coelacanth is a lobe - finned fish that sparked a debate over whether this species represented a missing link between aquatic animals and four - legged terrestrial creatures, according to National Geographic.