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Where would coelacanths be located on a branching tree?
A coelacanth is not part of a branching tree but a crossopterygian fish. As one time, it was thought the species was extinct until they found it off the coast of Africa in 1938.
What is the name of the fish that thought to be extinct but it was not?
coelacanth
Are there any extinct tropical fish?
There are thousands of extinct species of fish, both tropical and temperate.
Are flying fish extinct?
Fling fish are not extinct they still live in the caribbean. They are also the National dish in Barbados where they are called cou-cou.
What is a Type of lobed fin fish that was though to be extinct?
coelancanth
What fish are extinct?
The fish that are thought to be extinct is the rare coecalanth which was extinct for 65 millon years.
Where would coelacanths be located on a branching tree?
A coelacanth is not part of a branching tree but a crossopterygian fish. As one time, it was thought the species was extinct until they found it off the coast of Africa in 1938.
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.
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.
Which animal was thought extinct but was found alive in the Indian Ocean in 1938?
The fish is a coelacanth. There is a known population around the comoros islands and one has been found more recently In Indonesia
How do we know if animals are extinct like dinosaurs like couldn't they be in hiding?
It is never one hundred percent certain that certain species are actually extinct or have just not been observed for extended periods of time, especially species which only recently went extinct or lived in very remote areas. There are plenty of examples of this occuring, such as the coelacanth, an ancient fish which was thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous, until specimens were found in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.
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 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 a placoderm?
The placoderm is actually an extinct fish, thought to have lived during the Devonian period and is thought to have had broad flat bony plates covering its body.
How old is the oldest living fish?
The Coelacanth is a species of fish that was thought to be extinct 66 million years ago and having lived up to about 410 million years ago, until one was caught in the West Indian Ocean in 1974. Other specimens have been caught since then although it is believed to be endangered so it could very become officially extinct sometime in the future.
What fish hawk was nearly made extinct by pesticides until it learned to live in the nation's downtowns?
Osprey or Peregrine
