We are so back
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 25 Apr 19:21
https://mander.xyz/post/28792856

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casmael@lemm.ee on 25 Apr 23:51 next collapse

Wow this is pretty recent. Like yesterday recent - were they only known through dead specimens before this?

Carl@hexbear.net on 26 Apr 00:31 next collapse

This appears to be the first record of a coelacanth in this area, previously they have been found off the coast of South Africa.

casmael@lemm.ee on 26 Apr 01:08 collapse

Dapper fish-about-town spotted in new neighbourhood, crowd goes wild

Biskii@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Apr 00:46 collapse

Animal Crossing told me they were still around

Edit: they around

Well-represented in both freshwater and marine fossils since the Devonian, they are now represented by only two extant marine species in the genus Latimeria: the West Indian Ocean coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae), primarily found near the Comoro Islands off the east coast of Africa, and the Indonesian coelacanth (Latimeria menadoensis).[4] The name coelacanth originates from the Permian genus Coelacanthus, which was the first scientifically named coelacanth.[5]

grranibal@lemmy.zip on 28 Apr 09:02 collapse

Dredge told me that too

sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 28 Apr 02:30 collapse

For some reason I thought they were already alive in the Amazon River