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  2. Coelacanth - Wikipedia

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    The coelacanth is also depicted on the 1000 Comorian franc banknote, as well as the 5 CF coin. [81] In the Pokémon media franchise, the Pokémon known as Relicanth is based on the coelacanth. [82] [83] In the video game series Animal Crossing, the coelacanth is a rare fish that can be caught by the player by fishing in the ocean. [84] [85]

  3. Latimeria - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Ancient swimming ‘taco’ had ‘bug jaws,’ new fossils show

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    An ancient buglike sea creature with a fan-shaped tail and a carapace that wrapped around its body swam upside down and looked like a taco — but this taco could bite back. Newfound fossils of ...

  6. Ancient jawless fish’s head fossilized in 3D hints at ... - AOL

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    A newfound fossil of a jawless fish is the oldest known vertebrate cranium preserved in 3D. The 455 million-year-old find could illuminate how vertebrate heads evolved.

  7. 'Incredibly rare' dead sea serpent surfaces in California ...

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    An "incredibly rare" fish was found at La Jolla Cove recently, making it the 20th time an oarfish has been spotted in California in the last century. 'Incredibly rare' dead sea serpent surfaces in ...

  8. Mawsonia (fish) - Wikipedia

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    Mawsonia is an extinct genus of prehistoric coelacanth fish. It is amongst the largest of all coelacanths, with one quadrate specimen (DGM 1.048-P) possibly belonging to an individual measuring 5.3 metres (17.4 feet) in length. [ 2] It lived in freshwater and brackish environments from the late Jurassic to the mid- Cretaceous ( Tithonian to ...

  9. 'It was huge.' Mississippi man finds rare mammoth tusk, first ...

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    August 13, 2024 at 10:32 AM. A Madison man was recently doing something he frequently does; walking along a creek looking for fossils and artifacts in Madison County. But this time he found ...