Don't call it a comeback, coelacanth's been here for years. We discuss life on Earth 400 million years ago, a military escort mission, our own fish ancestors, five year pregnancies, underwater handstands, an unnecessarily complicated puzzle in the third generation PokƩmon games, and so much more.
āThe Coelacanthā - Knysna Museum
āThe Discoveryā - UC Museum of Paleontologyās website
āEarliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonianā - Min Zhu et al., Nature Communications, April 2012
āAnimated Life: The Living Fossil Fish | HHMI BioInteractive VideoāĀ
āThe coelacanth rostral organ is a unique low-resolution electro-detector that facilitates the feeding strikeā - Rachel M. Berquist et al., Scientific Reports, March 2015
āNew scale analyses reveal centenarian African coelacanthsā - KĆ©lig MahĆ© et al., Current Biology, August 2021
āNeurocranial development of the coelacanth and the evolution of the sarcopterygian headā - Hugo Dutel et al., Nature, May 2019
āBuoyancy and hydrostatic balance in a West Indian Ocean coelacanth Latimeria chalumnaeā - Henrik Lauridsen et al., BMC Biology, August 2022
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