Model Of Coelacanths
by Bettmann
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Model Of Coelacanths
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Bettmann
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Photograph - Photography
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(Original Caption) 12/30/1952-New York, NY: Courtesy of the American Museum of Natural History, Is a model of a Coelacanth, a fish believed to heve become extinct 75,000,000 years ago but didn't. A specimen has been found in the Comoro Islands and brought to Durban, South Africa, by Professor J. L. B. Smith. Rhodes University Ichthyologist. Who calls the find "one of the most amazing discoveries ever made i science". The model shown here ws made from the skin of one caught in 1938. The fish is believed to be the closest relative to a group of fishes that gave rise to land-living vertibrates.
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