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Latimeria. Latimeria is a rare genus of fish which contains the only living species of coelacanth. It includes two extant species: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth ( Latimeria chalumnae) and the Indonesian coelacanth ( Latimeria menadoensis ). They follow the oldest known living lineage of Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish and tetrapods ), which ...
Coelacanths (/ ˈ s iː l ə k æ n θ / ⓘ SEE-lə-kanth) (order Coelacanthiformes) are an ancient group of lobe-finned fish (Sarcopterygii) in the class Actinistia. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As sarcopterygians, they are more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods (which includes amphibians , reptiles , birds and mammals ) than to ray-finned fish .
Marjorie Eileen Doris Courtenay-Latimer (24 February 1907 – 17 May 2004) was a South African museum official, who in 1938, brought to the attention of the world the existence of the coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for 65 million years. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered this coelacanth, formerly only seen in fossils ...
Star Trek: The Original Series. ) " Bread and Circuses " is the twenty-fifth and penultimate episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon and directed by Ralph Senensky, it was first broadcast on March 15, 1968. In the episode, Captain Kirk and his ...
The Naked Time. " The Naked Time " is the fourth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by John D. F. Black and directed by Marc Daniels, it first aired on September 29, 1966. In the episode, a strange, intoxicating infection, which lowers the crew's inhibitions, spreads throughout the ...
Coelacanths were thought to be extinct until a live one was caught in South Africa in 1938. Others have been seen and photographed since then. They're usually found in deep, dark waters.
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...
The Counter-Clock Incident. " The Counter-Clock Incident " is the series finale of the American animated science fiction television series Star Trek, the 22nd episode overall. This episode was the sixth and final episode of the second season. It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on October 12, 1974, and was written by Fred Bronson ...