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littlearchitect: Coelacanths by emlan

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something-whimsical: Coelacanth by Mark Schultz

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distritomural: Coelacanth by Matt Verges

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poecilotheria: Coelacanth

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The Coelacanth’s slow, graceful stroke is like no other fish’s. It moves left pectoral and right pelvic fins, then right pectoral and left pelvic fins—akin to the cross-step of tetrapods. (via: National Geo)

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The Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae): Fossil Fish

The coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs.

But in 1938, when a South African museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer spied a bizarre creature with thick scales, unusual fins, and an extra lobe on its tail, amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn’t know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the end of the Cretaceous period but somehow outlasted many of its prehistoric peers, dwelling deep in the ocean, undisturbed—and undetected—for eons.

Since this chance sighting, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in several pockets in the Indian Ocean. No one knows how many there are—maybe as few as 1,000 or as many as 10,000…

(read more: National Geo)

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Mark Schultz