That's You 70 Million Years Ago, That Is

Coelacanths: these fish were thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until people started hauling them up in nets in the Indian Ocean in the last century. These fish have remained unchanged for all that time. They are lobe-finned fish, only four species of which survive (as far as we know), but it's these lobe fins on similar fish which The Scientists think gave rise to the limbs of land animals.

"Cast of a Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae"

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