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What is unique about coelacanth fish?

Latimeria is the only surviving representative of the lobe-finned fish, which until recently were considered extinct more than 100 million years ago, that is, even before the era of dinosaurs reached its peak on Earth.

The capture of the first specimen of coelacanth off the coast of Southeast Africa on December 25, 1938 was one of the largest zoological discoveries of the 1952th century. In XNUMX, a second specimen of the coelacanth was found near the Comoros, and now there are already several dozen of these ancient fish in museum collections.

Coelacanth lives in the Indian Ocean, at the bottom at depths of 150-400 meters (possibly even deeper). After rising to the surface, she, unfortunately, dies. Its thick body covered with massive scales is up to 180 centimeters long and weighs up to 95 kilograms.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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