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Indonesia - Coelacanths, the nearly 400-million-year-old living fossil fish are known to exist in
Indonesian waters, the last being caught off Indonesia's Manado in North Sulawesi in 1998, but they are rare. Now an Indonesian scientific expedition has photographed at least five living specimens at around 150m.
First discovered in 1938 off South Africa, coelacanths can reach two metres in length and have paired fins which move like human arms and legs. The fish is closely related to the first land vertebrates and gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs. |
