image creditCoelacanths are members of an order of fish that includes the oldest living lineage of lobed-finned fish to date. Coelacanths were thought to have gone extinct in the Late Cretaceous, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa. The coelacanth has been nicknamed a 'living fossil,' because it was originally known only through fossils, long before the first discovery of a live specimen.
An overview of the coelacanth replicas, models, and figurines generally available of the two species (the African, Latimeria chalumnae, and the Indonesian, Latimeria menadoensis).
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