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Coelacanth for dinner. A fisherman in Indonesia reeled in the bizzare coelacanth which scientists believed was exinct until one turned up in 1938. Coelancanth’s are unusual for fish, they give live birth.

From National Geographic:

“The four-foot, 110-pound specimen lived for 17 hours in a quarantine pool, an “extraordinary” feat considering the cold, deep-sea habitat of the fish, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas of the local Sam Ratulangi University told the Associated Press. Lumingas plans to study the carcass.

Scientists were shocked when a coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was found off Africa’s coast in 1938. They had believed the fish went extinct 65 million years ago, as did a related lineage of prehistoric fishes.

The fish has been a source of fascination ever since. Several other coelacanths have been caught in recent decades, including another in the species-rich waters of Sulawesi in 1998.

Coelacanths usually reach five feet in length, have limblike fins, and are covered in hard scales and toothy outgrowths that protect their bodies from rocks and predators. UUnlike other fish, they also give birth to live young.”

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