French experts equipped with sonar and GPS try to reconstruct trough asked an Indonesia (Manado) Fisherman how to catch a rare coelacanth fish, an awkward-swimming species among the world's oldest. This Full Article can read in Yahoo Tech News
A very rare coelacanth fish as Indonesian, Japanese and French specialists (unseen) carry out an autopsy of in Manado, North Sulawesi, in June. Coelacanths are among the world's oldest fish species. Their fossil records date back more than 360 million years and suggest the animal has changed little in that time.(Photo credit : AFP/File/ Ronan Bourhis)
Second Indonesian coelacanth known to science, later to become holotype of new species, Latimeria menadoensis. Photograph by Mark V. Erdmann, July 1998
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A very rare coelacanth fish as Indonesian, Japanese and French specialists (unseen) carry out an autopsy of in Manado, North Sulawesi, in June. Coelacanths are among the world's oldest fish species. Their fossil records date back more than 360 million years and suggest the animal has changed little in that time.(Photo credit : AFP/File/ Ronan Bourhis)
Second Indonesian coelacanth known to science, later to become holotype of new species, Latimeria menadoensis. Photograph by Mark V. Erdmann, July 1998
Relate Article :
- The Coelacanth: More Living than Fossil (http://www.mnh.si.edu/highlight/coelacanth/)
- NOVA's "Ancient Creature of the Deep" site: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fish/
- A general information site about the coelacanth: http://www.dinofish.com/
- South African deep water dives and the coelacanth: http://www.coelacanth-diver.co.za/
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