On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a ...
Learn how new technology revealed a long-forgotten museum specimen to be a missing link in coelacanth evolution.
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The incredible rediscovery of animals once thought to be extinct
True extinction is final, a point of no return where a species disappears forever. And sadly, species go extinct all the time ...
Scientists have documented rare cases where species thought extinct, known as 'Lazarus species,' reappear after decades or ...
On one of the final days of 1938, a fishing trawler off the coast of South Africa reeled in a massive creature unlike anything the crew had seen before. It was nearly five feet in length, and its fins ...
A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London’s Natural History Museum.
The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...
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