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No, Since 1938 There have been many reports even a caught Coelacanths around central Indonesia and in along side the coast of Africa, The Indian ocean side.
Coelacanths were thought to be Extinct 65 Million years ago, But by Actual Footage I Have seen I can assure you the Coelacanth is alive.
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What is the name of the fish that thought to be extinct but it was not?
coelacanth
What fish was thought to be extinct but was found alive?
The coelocanth.
Can a coelacanth live in any waters?
Yes......But they're already extinct
What are some of the interesting features of a coelacanth?
A Coelacanth is a rare type of fish and means hollow spine in Greek. A Coelacanth was considered a living fossil as it did not evolve over its millions of years. It was thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago but was rediscovered in 1938.
What is the oddest fish in the world.?
Coelacanth coelacanths had become extinct 60 or 70 million years ago
Is a Coelacanth dangerous?
It's big enough to inflict a good bite on a human, but the very fact that we thought they were extinct indicates how rarely we bump into each other. As compared to a shark or a jellyfish, no, a coelacanth is not dangerous.
Once though extinct for millennia the coelacanth turned out to be a popular menu item in the Comoros Islands in what ocean?
Indian Ocean
What type of lobe finned fish is thought to be extinct?
Lobe-finned fish were prehistoric fish from the order of Crossopterygii. These type of fish were discovered in fossils with no known live specimen at the time of the discovery. However in 1938 a fish species called Coelacanth, which was thought to have been extinct, was discovered off the Southern coast of Africa. More recently, in 1997 and again in 1998, a separate breed of Coelacanth, named Indonesian Coelcanth (Latimeria Menadoensis), were discovered living in the oceans off of Indonesia. The Indonesian Coelcanth (Latimeria Menadoensis) is officially listed as "threatened", not extinct. All species of lobe-finned fish are believed to be exctinct except for the Coelacanth and Sulawesi Coelacanth.
What negative effects do humans have on Coelacanth?
There are only two species of this fish surviving, the West Indian Ocean Coelacanth and the Indonesian Coelacanth. (It was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years.) Both species are endangered. Losses occur when they are caught accidentally (they are not good eating) but specimens now are no longer thrown back, but are kept to be sold to scientists and museums!
How do you spell cielecante?
The closest word to this spelling is the proper noun Coelacanth, an order of fish thought to be extinct but rediscovered in 1938 as the species Latimeria chalumnae.
Are the coelacanth older than the dinosaurs?
yes, the coelacanth is older than the dinosaurs.
What is the term used to describe an extinct animal that is actually alive?
By definition, there are no extinct species still alive today. Any creature deemed extinct, and then later found to still be alive, must have been wrongly classified. The term for animals or other life forms still with us today is... extant. There are examples of animals thought to have been extinct and then rediscovered in modern times. One is the Coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth,) a primitive fish that was believed to be extinct since the Late Cretaceous Epoch, some 60 or 70 million years ago. The Coelacanth is sometimes called, "a living fossil," since it was discovered in the fossil record before it was later revealed to be extant.
