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coelacanth

see luh kanth

  • n  fish thought to have been extinct since the Cretaceous period but found in 1938 off the coast of Africa
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  • Mary Dawson in MSNBC
    It is an amazing discovery and it's the coelacanth of rodents,said study coauthor Mary Dawson of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. "It's the first time in the study of mammals that scientists have found a living fossil of a group...

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