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The Naturalist - 27 Sep 2008 The Smart Set,...but information in each is presented in a constrained manner so that if you do, say, jump from a stuffed penguin in Poles to a preserved Coelacanth (the Annual Financial Report For Year Ended 30 June 2008 - Sep 11, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,Our focus over the past 12 months has been the drilling of Coelacanth 1 by farminee Apache Energy in Vic/P45, continued evaluations in Vic/P47, Michael Douglas: Don't call me Gekko - Sep 25, 2008 Seattle Times,Among other things, the hall is the only place in the world to exhibit the preserved remains of an adult coelacanth and its pup. Dean Hoge, 71, a prominent Origin of fingers seen in fish - Sep 21, 2008 World Science,Lobe-finned fish first appeared in the Ordovician period, about 500 million to 425 million years ago, and are extinct except for the coelacanth and Are Bi-Pedal Reptiles, Giant Monitors Still Alive Today? - Sep 20, 2008 NewsBlaze,If the coelacanth and wollemi pine survived, why not a living therapod or super goanna? Reptile metabolism is another factor to consider. Journey to the coral reef - Sep 13, 2008 Sunday Times.lk,For instance, the scales of the Coelacanth fish are so rough and tough that people living in the Comoro Islands use it as a substitute for sandpaper. Rossiter: Bigfoot mystery at Sandy Creek - Sep 5, 2008 Online Athens,It's called a coelacanth. "It's a really fascinating story," Davis said. "There were all these stories about these strange fish. Natural History Museum experts debunk 'science' in sci-fi flicks - Aug 9, 2008 Pasadena Star-News,In the movie, the blood of the fossilized fish, called a coelacanth, causes a research professor to regress into a murderous, prehistoric ape-man. Artists' Journals and Other Queer Fish - Aug 7, 2008 seattlepi.com Mariners blogLast night the first issue of The Coelacanth Journal was launched in London by its editors, the artists Phoebe Blatton and Susan Finlay. Creatures that inhabit our guilty conscience - Aug 13, 2008 Times Online,Numerous animals once considered mythical have turned out to be real - the coelacanth, a fish believed to be extinct since the Cretaceous Period, The Beano must bewilder today's children - Jul 30, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,It winks out from the bottom shelf of the newsagent like a coelacanth in a fishing net. Its cast of 1940s comic stereotypes – catapults and stink-bombs; Is Bigfoot an Alien? - Jul 19, 2008 American Chronicle,One example is the Coelacanth, a prehistoric fish thought to be extinct. Numerous anecdotes of the Coelacanth were obtained from South African locals, Quarterly Report to 30 June 2008 - Jul 17, 2008 Sydney Morning Herald,The Coelacanth well was plugged and abandoned, with no material hydrocarbons encountered. Apache met 100% of the costs of Coelacanth. Do Mythic Creatures Exist? Show Me the Body - Aug 4, 2008 Scientific AmericanCryptozoologists are especially proud of the catch in 1938 of a coelacanth, an archaic-looking species of fish that had been thought to have gone extinct in Sale of Featherbed panics ecologists - Aug 8, 2008 Weekend Post,...after it was bought in 1954 for conservation purposes by his scientist father, world-acclaimed ichthyologist and author JLB Smith of coelacanth fame, The New Sant Ocean Hall Opens Sept. 27 at the Smithsonian’s ... - Aug 8, 2008 7thSpace Interactive (press release),The hall also is the only place in the world to exhibit both an adult coelacanth (SEE-la-kanth) and its pup. This prehistoric fish was thought to have gone crypto-dictionary - Jul 30, 2008 Wire,To cryptozoologists, the coelacanth proves that creatures thought not to exist occasionally pop up for surprise visits. (A drawing of the creature also Matinee Melee: 'Journey' is 3-D worthy - Jul 15, 2008 Chattanooga Times Free Press,The Giant-toothed Coelacanth attack was one of my favorite uses of 3-D in the movie. I also enjoyed having tyrannosaurus rex spit in my face. חיות ×ž×–× ×™×? חדשי×? לחלוטין? - Jul 18, 2008 ×?פוק טיימס,...דוגמה היסטורית × ×•×¡×¤×ª להתעלמות מ×?וכלוסיית בעלי ×—×™×™×? מסוימת ×”×™×? ×”"קול×?ק×?× ×ª'" (Coelacanth - Latimeria chalumnae), זן של דג פרה-היסטורי שהמדע חשב ×©× ×›×—×“ כבר ×œ×¤× ×™ 'Living fossil' to be shown in Tokyo - Apr 22, 2008 The Daily Yomiuri,OSAKA--A preserved coelacanth, a species of fish popularly referred to as "living fossils," is to be displayed in the evolution-themed exhibition "Darwin," John Weinstein, xx - Apr 24, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Well, since fishermen caught a new species of coelacanth off the coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia. 1938. . . . We have simply no ideas as yet what the animal. Two “Extinctâ€? Species Discovered - Apr 18, 2008 Environmental Graffiti,Despite the occasional hubbub over an animal science has lost track of– say, the Coelacanth– we’ve witnessed something extraordinary. What should be done about the world's food shortages? - Apr 14, 2008 NZ Herald Dunedin Metro,Coelacanth (Wellington City) v man is quite right. Peak Oil should be the #1 issue right now. The green revolution was fueled by oil - and the diminishing Aquarium diver saves birthday girl's gift - Apr 23, 2008 Cape Argus (subscription),By Francis Hweshe It might only have been a R300 gift voucher that was lost underwater but Two Oceans Aquarium staff treated it like a prize coelacanth that West Triton targets 64 million barrels of oil - 22 Feb 2008 EnergyCurrent,The rig will be relocated to the VIC/P45 permit next month to drill on the Coelacanth prospect, which holds 64 million barrels of oil reserves, according to Three’sa Charm as ACOR’s Three (3) Offshore Well Drilling Program ... - Feb 21, 2008 Business Wire (press release),The Coelacanth structure on ACOR’s VIC/P45 is the second well in the West Triton multi-well drilling program. The same drilling rig (West Triton) will also Three’sa Charm as ACOR’s three offshore well drilling program ... - Feb 21, 2008 Oil Online,Australian-Canadian Oil Royalties Ltd. (ACOR) has announced that the drilling of the Coelacanth well on ACOR’s ORRI under VIC/P45 is expected to commence The creatures that came back from the dead - Feb 15, 2008 Scenta.co.uk,The coelacanth had been extinct for 65m years when an alert museum curator in South Africa noticed a "strange, blue fish" in a catch she was inspecting in Outwitt, outsmart, outclass - Jan 24, 2008 Tonight,...from knowing the number of feet-like fins on a prehistoric fish called the Coelacanth (unless you're planning to become an ichthyologist, that is). Imperial legacies - Nov 29, 2007 New Statesman,The museum also displays the 65 million-year-old coelacanth, whose discovery in local waters once excited journalists. The huge fish sprawls there, Editorial: Ocean literacy, as practiced in the Celebes Sea - Nov 20, 2007 The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com,The blue-green Celebes Sea holds some of the oceans' deepest, unexplored oddities and "living fossils" such as coelacanth fish and primitive shrimp once Figuring out death in 'The Rowing Lesson' - Nov 23, 2007 Los Angeles Times,Consider the harrowing image that begins the novel: "I can hear the dirty blood inside you, the way that old fish, the coelacanth, spins on its head and can Tom Loftus hits the beach with five digital cameras designed for ... - Nov 27, 2007 Concierge,Above water, the camera lumbers like a stubby-finned coelacanth, and the image quality is mediocre at best (all the rich colors of the seaside sunset washed Public are invited to take part in PE‘s National Marine Week event - Oct 18, 2007 The Herald Eastern Cape,The chairman of the organising committee, Karen Binning, of the SA Institute of Aquatic Bio-diversity‘s coelacanth programme, said yesterday the event had One ex-surrealist does not a channel make - Oct 1, 2007 Scotsman,With a face like an ironic coelacanth, and a manner both shifty and persuasive, he certainly looked like someone who could charm your pants while pilfering Andrew English's column - Oct 3, 2007 AutoExpress,Mercedes had 15 and I spent the day tripping over gorgeous, pouting TV presenters introducing “der neue Mercedes hybrid Coelacanthâ€?, or the “Ford hybrid WHAT'S WHAT ON THE WEB - Sep 25, 2007 The Patriot-News - PennLive.com,...a list of cold-blooded creatures that range from the 400-million year old coelacanth, to the 50-centimeter robot fish in the London Aquarium. Strong field for Fish River race - Sep 27, 2007 Independent Online,In among the thousands of paddlers will be scores who will be hoping to complete their 10th Hansa Powerade Fish, thereby joining the elite "Coelacanth" club Round Table for Tuesday, October 2, 2007 - Oct 1, 2007 Capitol Hill Blue,...(Okay, the coelacanth may not have anything to do with Darwin directly, but it's a cross between a fossil and a dinosaur, and it's still swimming around out 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 fossilâ€? 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.â€? 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 FOSSILâ€?): “It’s known from the fossil record about 60 million years ago, and it’s basically been unchanged since then. ... - Lawrence Journal World, [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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