Coelacanth
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Coelacanth fossil provides new data about primitive pattern for ... - Aug 16, 2007
University of Chicago ChronicleBy Catherine Gianaro A 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin, the first finding of its kind, fills a shrinking evolutionary gap between fins and
How the coelacanth got its fins - Aug 10, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),Matt Friedman, a graduate student at the University of Chicago in the US, has stumbled across a unique fossil that reveals how the coelacanth evolved its
Scientists excited by Indonesian-caught coelacanth fish - Jul 29, 2007
ABC Science Online,Indonesian fisherman Justinus Lahama holds up a rare coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct at the time of the dinosaurs.
Rare Indonesian coelacanth caught - Aug 1, 2007
Practical Fishkeeping,An Indonesian fisherman has caught an exceptionally rare species of coelacanth off the island of Sulawesi. Justinus Lahama caught the fossil fish,
Scientists excited by Indonesian-caught coelacanth - Jul 28, 2007
South Asian Women's Forum,...in his dugout canoe, exactly what it was he did that enabled him to catch a rare coelacanth fish, an awkward-swimming species among the world's oldest.
Ancient Indonesian fish is 'living fossil' - Jul 29, 2007
Cosmos,MANADO, Indonesia: A surprised fisherman has caught only the second coelacanth known from Asia since it was first discovered here in 1998.
Fowler's Health And Science Updates - Aug 2, 2007
KTVU.com,A 400-million year old first-ever discovered fossilized fin of a coelacanth bridges the gap between fins and legs, scientists say.
Full Text - Aug 16, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)The coelacanth, a "living fossil" species that dates back more than 400 million years, led Norihiro Okada of the Tokyo Institute of Technology to a whole
400-mln-year old fossil bridges gap between fin-to-limb evolution - Aug 2, 2007
NewKerala.com,Washington, Aug 2 : Palaeontologists have found a 400 million-year-old coelacanth fossil fin, which they say, fills the shrinking evolutionary gap between
Fisherman catches 'living fossil' - Aug 2, 2007
Fish Update,According to BBC News, the 1.3m-long (4.3ft), 50kg (110lb) coelacanth is only the second ever to have been captured in Asia and has been described as a
Scientists excited by rare fish - Aug 1, 2007
Turkish Daily News (subscription),Second coelacanth ever captured alive"It was an enormous fish. It had phosphorescent green eyes and legs. If I had pulled it up during the night,
Ancestor of the “living fossil� sheds new light - Aug 1, 2007
World Science,Called a coelacanth, it was a relative of some of the first land-walking creatures. A present-day coelacanth. The fish live in caves.
Review: Four From Japan - Aug 11, 2007
Kansas City Star,Her most interesting and accessible poem in this volume is “A Perfect Day for Coelacanth.� Kyong-Mi Park, 51, is a second-generation Korean writing and
Fossil fish sheds light on evolution of limbs - Aug 1, 2007
Scenta.co.uk,The discovery of the 400 million-year-old fossil of a coelacanth fin has helped scientists to bridge the evolutionary gap between fins and limbs.
What triggers mass extinctions? - Aug 8, 2007
MSNBCHowever, the invasion of the so-called elpistostegalians — distant relatives of the coelacanth — "got wiped out by these extinction events," McGhee
Fossil puts focus on fin-to-limb evolution - Aug 6, 2007
Science Daily (press release)The coelacanth fossil, found recently in northern Wyoming, shows the ancestral pattern of lobed fins closely resembles the pattern in the fins of primitive
Fossil fin shows evolution of limbs for walking - Aug 2, 2007
Xinhua,2 (Xinhuanet) -- A 400 million-year-old fossilized coelacanth fin is providing insight into how fins evolved into limbs for walking on land because the
'Living Fossil' Not So Primitive After All - Aug 1, 2007
FOX NewsThe fossil fin comes from a coelacanth, a type of lobe-finned fish, and provides the only skeletal fin remains to date from the extinct relatives of today's
'Living Fossil' Fish Hooked in Asia - Jul 31, 2007
Discovery Channel...to reconstruct in his dugout canoe,exactly what it was he did to catch a rare coelacanth, an awkward-swimming species among the world's oldest.
Apache ups targets - Jul 30, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,..."The Gippsland exploration program includes the 150 million-barrel Nemo prospect, as well as the Oyster, Elver, Coelacanth and Hermit prospects,
Fish tale has real legs - Jul 29, 2007
Melbourne Herald Sun,The rare coelacanth is among the world's oldest fish, usually living 200-1000m down, growing up to two metres, and weighing as much as 91kg.
The Ugs have a visit from dear Aunt Lucy - Aug 8, 2007
Daily Mail,...among paleontologists by being removed from her base in Ethiopia for a six-year United States tourught her a big fat coelacanth in the swamp.
CALUMET CITY: Sixteen-inch softball still the rage in Calumet City - Aug 3, 2007
nwitimes.com,By Kass Stone CALUMET CITY | Like the coelacanth and horseshoe crab, 16-inch softball players have managed to continue to exist in pretty much the same form
Gap narrows in 'fin to limb' debate - Aug 1, 2007
InTheNews.co.uk,The fossil of a fin from the coelacanth fish was excavated from Paleozoic sediments at Beartooth Butte in northern Wyoming, US. People have dubbed the fish
Ask The AV Club: July 26, 2007 - Jul 27, 2007
A.V. ClubA description of the scene from the comment-board, from user "The Coelacanth": "Richard Widmark's Viking explorers were captured by Sidney Poitier's African
My Reply to Tony Bennett (Featuring Nylon Eating Bacteria!) Nov 21, 2006
One example would be the analagous nature of opsins in ancient fish like the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) and modern whales. ... - ProgressiveU.org,
WinInfo Short Takes: Thanksgiving 2006 Special Edition Nov 22, 2006
Anyone? Bueller? I'm just kidding of course. You'd have better luck catching a coelacanth in Boston Harbor than you would finding someone with a Zune. ... - SQL Server Magazine (subscription),
A note to zealots: fundamentally, Charles Darwin was right all ... Oct 29, 2006
...fossil record. The coelacanth, for example, is a fish that seems to have changed little in more than 300 million years. Gould suggested ... - Times Online,
Student discovers 360-million-year-old fish Oct 26, 2006
The coelacanth is no longer the only living fossil fish swimming in our oceans. A Wits University PhD student has discovered that ... - Independent Online,
World first for EC scientist Oct 26, 2006
AN EASTERN Cape scientist has set the research world alight with the discovery of a 360-million-year-old 4cm fish that may be as significant as the coelacanth. ... - Dispatch Online,
Fishy find a first Oct 27, 2006
According to Gess, the fish indicates that modern lampreys are living fossils in the mould of the coelacanth, which has remained unchanged for 360-million years ... - Mail & Guardian Online,
Something fishy Oct 29, 2006
COELACANTH (“LIVING FOSSIL�): “It’s known from the fossil record about 60 million years ago, and it’s basically been unchanged since then. ... - Lawrence Journal World,
1st 3-D image of coelacanth produced Feb 26, 2006
...have joined forces to successfully produce the world's first 3-D image of a coelacanth, a species of fish that has survived unchanged in the Earth's oceans for ...
The Daily Yomiuri,
Notable news Mar 29, 2006
Classic discoveries of strange creatures include the 1938 catch of a coelacanth, a fish thought to be extinct for millions of years, and the “discovery� in ...
Science & Theology News,
The Laotian rock rat rises from the dead Mar 10, 2006
In 1938, the discovery of a coelacanth, a fish from the age of the dinosaurs, made headlines around the world and set off an international search to find ...
Globe and Mail,
Back from the dead: Living fossil identified Mar 9, 2006
Perhaps the best known example of the Lazarus effect is the coelacanth, a lobe-finned fish discovered off the coast of South Africa that scientists thought ...
MSNBC
Back from the dead: rodent 'missing' for 11 million years is ... Mar 9, 2006
The most famous example of the Lazarus effect was the capture of a live prehistoric fish called a coelacanth by fishermen off the east coast of South Africa in ...
Independent,
Robotic fish goes on show in Japan Mar 19, 2006
The robot is Ryomei Engineering’s fifth in a line of fish robots that includes a sea bream, a prehistoric coelacanth, and a golden carp. ...
Pocket-lint.co.uk,
Japanese create robot Koi Mar 21, 2006
...fish developed by Ryomei Giken. Previous examples have included sea bream, golden carp and a coelacanth. While the robotic carp ...
Practical Fishkeeping,
Opinion: They seek him here, they seek him there... Mar 19, 2006
It happened in 1938 with the discovery of the "living fossil" coelacanth, believed extinct for 65 million years, and in 1976 with not just a new species but a ...
New Straits Times,
Ancient beasts raise questions about climate change. Mar 7, 2006
A few miles south of here and deep beneath the ocean's waves lies one of the few known populations of the coelacanth, a "fossil fish" that has been swimming ...
Zee News,
Rat-squirrel back after 11-million-year absence Mar 9, 2006
Another well-known example is the coelacanth, a primitive fish that existed before the dinosaurs and was thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago ...
CNN
Laotian rodent takes scientists by surprise Mar 10, 2006
The Lazarus effect has been observed before, most notably with the re-emergence in the Indian Ocean in 1938 of the coelacanth, a fish believed to have gone ...
Seattle Times,
Laotian Rodent Proves Living Fossil Mar 9, 2006
..."It's the coelacanth of rodents," Dawson says, referring to the ancient fish believed extinct until a live specimen was hauled from the depths by South African ...
Scientific American
Secrets of nature still enthral us Mar 4, 2006
Just to one side of his tank, a cylinder contains a 4ft fish: a coelacanth, once thought to have become extinct millions of years ago but discovered - to great ...
The Observer,
Sulu-Sulawesi marine ecoregion gets protection boost Mar 8, 2006
...ecoregion because of its outstanding biodiversity, among them the endangered turtles, whale shark, and dugong, a living fossil fish (coelacanth) thought to ...
Tempo,
Writer says positions mischaracterized Mar 11, 2006
Lastly, I mentioned the coelacanth as an example of creatures found alive that science once pronounced extinct only to address McKown's implication regarding ...
Montgomery Advertiser,
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