Finding Dark Energy, Coelacanth Revival, Words of Persuasion
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Discovering the Origin of the Dundondon Sealicanth
At least 90 species of sel anths thrived in the earth's oceans 300 million years ago, but they went extinct about 65 million years ago. In 19 38, courtney latimer was a museum curator in east london when she saw a fish that had been brought in by a fishing boat. She took it back to the museum and called a researcher friend at a nearby rhodes university to help her idea the fish. To day, there are two known living selicanth species. One is in the indian ocean, while the other was discovered in 19 97 nearIndonesia. Biologists refer to them as living fossils or living species that have remained largely unchanged for
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