Coleacanths were discovered in year 1938. They were made 300 million years ago. This is why they're called living fossils. They are Saltwater Fish.
Coelacanths have been found off the coast of southern Africa near Madagascar.
Coelacanths eat whatever they find as they drift in the current. Because they can lift the upper jaw as well as move the lower jaw, coelacanths can open their mouths quite far to suck prey from crevices
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Not really. In 1995, results from a dive counted about 40 coelacanths. The number has changed since then, but coelacanths are still nowhere near abundant. South African fisherman who fish for oilfish sometimes catch a coelacanth by accident. Without the strength to swim hundreds of meters back to their habitat, they usually die. Some of them get sold to scientists. As far as we know, coelacanths are very rare. Prior to around 1940, we thought they were extinct. They are still in danger.
The bony fish. They are also known as lobe-finned fishes.
it has been difficult to find Coelacanths because it lives depth range of 600- 1,000 feet under water and cause its in the Indian Ocean near Southern Africa.It was also called the missing link.
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