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War Pony is a 2022 American drama film directed and produced by Riley Keough and Gina Gammell—in both of their respective feature directorial debuts—from a screenplay by Keough, Gammell, Franklin Sioux Bob and Bill Reddy. It stars Jojo Bapteise Whiting and Ladainian Crazy Thunder. It had its world premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival ...
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 means they ...
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 ...
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
Daeschler, Shubin & Jenkins, 2006. Tiktaalik ( / tɪkˈtɑːlɪk /; Inuktitut ᑎᒃᑖᓕᒃ [tiktaːlik]) is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the Late Devonian Period, about 375 Mya (million years ago), having many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). [ 1] Tiktaalik is estimated to ...
The West Indian Ocean coelacanth[ 6] ( Latimeria chalumnae) (sometimes known as gombessa, [ 2][ 7] African coelacanth, [ 8] or simply coelacanth[ 9]) is a crossopterygian, [ 10] one of two extant species of coelacanth, a rare order of vertebrates more closely related to lungfish and tetrapods than to the common ray-finned fishes.
That’s exactly what researchers at the University of Manchester did with a 3,000-year-old, 7.2-foot-long crocodile corpse, kept at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and known simply as 2005. ...