What is the coelacanth exhibited at the Nantes museum?

This fish was believed to have been extinct for 70 million years, until one was caught in 1938. Since then, the coelacanth, a specimen of which is exhibited in Nantes, has continued to make headlines…

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I wouldn’t have been more surprised if I had seen a dinosaur walking down the street! When he discovered, in 1938, the strange fish that fell into the nets of a South African fisherman, the ichthyologist James Brierley Smith was amazed. The marine animal specialist has just identified a species considered extinct for at least 65 million years.

Record broken with 5 years of gestation and reproduction at 55 years old

The coelacanths Latimeria chalumnae are the last survivors of a lineage that reached its peak 240 million years ago. …