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2. Lists of prehistoric fish - Wikipedia

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   The study of prehistoric fish is called paleoichthyology. A few living forms, such as the coelacanth are also referred to as prehistoric fish, or even living fossils, due to their current rarity and similarity to extinct forms. Fish which have become recently extinct are not usually referred to as prehistoric fish.

3. Coelacanth - Wikipedia

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   Among the fish that have been caught were about equal numbers of males and females. [8] Population estimates range from 210 individuals per population to 500 per population. [ 8 ] [ 67 ] Because coelacanths have individual color markings, scientists think that they recognize other coelacanths via electric communication .

4. Pygopterus - Wikipedia

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   Pygopterus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Wuchiapingian to Olenekian ages (late Permian to Early Triassic epochs) in what is now England, Germany (Baden-Württemberg, Saxony-Anhalt), Greenland and Svalbard (Spitsbergen). [2] [3] It is one of the few genera of ray-finned fish known to cross the Permian ...

5. Placoderm - Wikipedia

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   Rhenanida ("Rhine fish") were flattened, ray-like, bottom-dwelling predators with large, upturned mouths that lived in marine environments. The rhenanids were once presumed to be the most primitive, or at least the closest to the ancestral placoderm, as their armour was made of unfused components—a mosaic of tubercles—as opposed to the ...

6. Fins of prehistoric fish reveal origins of the human hand - AOL

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   Inside the stout fins of a fish that prowled the shallow waters of an estuary in what is now eastern Canada about 380 million years ago, scientists have found what they call the evolutionary ...

7. Tiktaalik - Wikipedia

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   Tiktaalik (/ t ɪ k ˈ t ɑː l ɪ k /; Inuktitut ᑎᒃᑖᓕᒃ) 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]

8. Eusthenopteron - Wikipedia

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   Eusthenopteron (from Greek: εὖ eû, 'good', Greek: σθένος sthénos, 'strength', and Greek: πτερόν pteron 'wing' or 'fin') [2] is a genus of prehistoric sarcopterygian (often called "lobe-finned") fish known from several species that lived during the Late Devonian period, about 385 million years ago.

9. A large prehistoric-looking fish was just found off Florida ...

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   One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.