Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth
Specimen of the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae). Coelacanths were thought to have died out 85 million years ago but have since been found off the south-eastern coast of Africa and in Sulawesi in 1998.
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Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: actinopterygii, ancient, animal, blue, bony, chalumnae, coelacanth, coelacanthiform, coelacanthiformes, finned, fish, fishes, gombessa, indian, latimeria, latimeriidae, long, mottled, ocean, osteichthyes, ray, ray-finned, rediscovered, scale, shot, specimen, studio, studioshot, west