Sentences with phrase «living coelacanth»

These are well fossilised because they were less cartilaginous than the fins of the living coelacanth.

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.

That Shoshonia and living coelacanths are different is perhaps not entirely surprising — coelacanths have, after all, been evolving for 400 million years.

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.

Not exact matches

The book looks at fish that live in subfreezing waters, ruminating monkeys, ridiculously poisonous newts, birds that see in the ultraviolet, mice that live on lava flows, cave fish, coelacanths, bush babies, humans, and some other marvels of evolution.

Apart from helpful hints on food for free, it will hearten gardeners to know that you can eat those persistent weeds such as kudzu and Japanese knotweeds — and appal you to know that those «living fossils», coelacanths, are on some menus.

While that is close to true for coelacanths, other famous «living fossils,» which have the slowest molecular evolutionary rate among vertebrates, the Lingula genome has been evolving rapidly, despite the lack of changes in appearance.

While the coelacanth has not retained this feature, other, more primitive living fish have.

When it was discovered in 1938, the coelacanth was hailed as a living fossil.

The most notable recent find within the park was in 1997, when the coelacanth was discovered living in the lava tubes of Manado Tua.

In the last article I discussed the claim that the Coelacanth is a «living fossil» (a term I despise because it is ripe for confusion).

But perhaps when it comes to living relics the true coelacanth as far as the internet is concerned is Usenet.