coelacanth
‘Fossil fish’ known as ‘Old Fourlegs’, once thought extinct, found alive

‘Fossil fish’ known as ‘Old Fourlegs’, once thought extinct, found alive

The fossil fish known as a coelacanth was thought to be extinct. Now a new population has been found near Madagascar You’d be forgiven for never having heard of the coelacanths: though they are a 420 million-year-old species that predate the dinosaurs, the ‘fossil fish’, primarily found off the east coast of Africa and Indonesia, […]

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