Coelacanth was the evolutionary surprise of the 1930s.
Living fossils and vestigial organs are two of the most embarrassing phenomena
that reduce the credibility of Darwinian evolution.
Darwinists used to believe that the Coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae lived during the era of the dinosaurs and became
extinct some 65 million years ago. Yesteryear’s evolutionists thought it was a
link between marine animals and land animals.
Now, new research sheds light on “coelacanths’ capacity to maintain buoyancy deep underwater and hunt for food in a vertical posture. It is thought these abilities allow the fish to use less energy – coelacanths are believed to have among the lowest metabolic rates of any living vertebrate.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Aarhus University in Denmark removed the country’s only specimen of this primordial fish from its jar of alcohol, then used computerised tomography (CT) scans to gain new insights into how coelacanths function deep underwater.”
Source:
CT scans of coelacanth fish
reveal energy-saving adaptations New Scientist
Posts
