Seriously, when I caught
my first Coelacanth I started screaming.
«The specimen is
the first coelacanth in Texas from the Cretaceous,» Graf said.
Not exact matches
By comparing the genomes of 203 vertebrates, they
first traced the origin of KZFPs back to a common ancestor of tetrapods (four - legged animals) and
coelacanth, a fish that evolved over 400 million years ago.
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.
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.
New research results published in the scientific journal Nature this week shows that the lungfish, not the
coelacanth, is most closely related to the organism that
first walked onto land.
Dr. Mark Erdmann
first saw a
coelacanth in Indonesia in September 1997, while on his honeymoon at Seabreeze Resort with his wife, Arnaz.
Coelacanth on the
first few days playing... DAMN!!