Coelocanth Rediscovery
 

Why the discovery of Coelacanth was important. The coelacanth is a type of fish related to other extinct fish that like the osteolepiforms and are thought to have gone extinct in the Late Cretaceous, it was later discovered in 1938 in the coast south of Africa. The only living coelacanth species is the Latimeria chulmnae and the latimeria menadoensis. It has since been renamed as the living fossil because they were first discovered as dead fossils before they were actually discovered in form of live specimen.

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