Living Fossil
Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.
The coelacanth's continued survival is threatened by commercial deep-sea trawling, in which coelacanths are caught as bycatch.
-- Wikipedia
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They are fished up from time to time but they never get a live specimen, They are a deep sea fish and never survive for long if they reach the surface. Several divers have lost there lives in pursuit of a live specimen at extreme depth.
-- Steve (below)
Living Fossil
Coelacanths were thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago, but were rediscovered in 1938 off the coast of South Africa.
The coelacanth's continued survival is threatened by commercial deep-sea trawling, in which coelacanths are caught as bycatch.
-- Wikipedia
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They are fished up from time to time but they never get a live specimen, They are a deep sea fish and never survive for long if they reach the surface. Several divers have lost there lives in pursuit of a live specimen at extreme depth.
-- Steve (below)