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Sunday, 10 May 2009 18:08 |
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This photos shows the fossil of a coelacanth which was displayed today in Grand Kawanua Convention Center in Manado, Indonesia.
Colecanth is also known as the living fossil and it is common name for an order of fish that includes the oldest living lineage of jawed fish known to date.
It was believed that coelacanths have gone extinct about 70 million years ago but in 1938. scientists found live specimen in South Africa.
The specimen of those fishes can be found in Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania and Indonesia. 
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