Measuring A Coelacanth
by Bettmann
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Measuring A Coelacanth
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Bettmann
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Photograph - Photography
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(Original Caption) Loren P. Woods, curator of fish, of the Field Museum of Natural History with an extremely rare fish called the coelacanth recently caught off the coast of South Africa. The fish, which weighs 30-lbs and measures over 3-ft in length is a member of a 400-million year old species once thought to be extinct. Only 4 other specimens have been available for study by American scientists since it was rediscovered in 1938. Prior to that date the fish was believed to have been extinct for at least 70-million years. It is a key evolutionary link in the shift of living things from water to dry land.
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May 12th, 2020
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