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Katalyst

Jul 16th 2007, 01:56 PM

Here's the full story...:smile:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070715/sc_nm/zanzibar_fish_dc

CACAdmin

Jul 16th 2007, 03:18 PM

Such amazing finds in our oceans! These coelacanths are such an intriguing species to have lived so long ago and still exist today (given that we once thought they were extinct). A fossil found in Australia in the 1970's was dated at 400 million years old! http://www.vanaqua.org/aquanew/fullnews.php?id=2094

I am not sure the status of the research project (I will try to find out) but Dr. Ribbink, the Programme Manager for the African Coelacanth Ecosystem Programme (ACEP), visited the Vancouver Aquarium in October of 2006 to discuss his plans to tag and track live coelancanths to learn more about them. Story here (http://www.vanaqua.org/aquanew/fullnews.php?id=1746) included a lot of information about the strange creatures.

Melody

Jul 16th 2007, 08:05 PM

Interesting read - thanks for posting it!

Soggybottom

Jul 17th 2007, 04:03 PM

Probably gonna be a while until we see these in the LFS...

Toirtis

Jul 18th 2007, 12:41 PM

A fascinating fact for all of you...Latimeria chalumnae (and Latimeria menadoensis ) are livebearers.

The new find is significant, as it means that the population and range is even greater than we had thought.

Katalyst

Jul 18th 2007, 12:56 PM

Hey Jay,

Don't even think about suggesting these for my livebearer tank! :rofl: :Neener:

Melody

Jul 18th 2007, 08:46 PM