The Coelacanth was once thought to be the first fish to walk – though it doesn’t have legs.
Joel Kontinen
A group of South African shark hunters have
unwittingly rediscovered a population of fish predating dinosaurs that many in
the scientific community believed to be extinct.
The "four-legged fossil fish" known as the
coelacanth has been found alive and well in the West Indian Ocean off the coast
of Madagascar, according to a report
from the nonprofit environmental conservation platform Mongabay News.
According to evolutionists, the fish lived some 420 million years ago, but then in 1938 the first living coelacanth was discovered. Now, they are being captured by fishermen catching sharks.
Source:
Brogle , Courtney, 2021, 'Extinct Fossil Fish' Dating Back 420 Million Years Found Alive in Madagascar. Newsweek, 5 May.
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