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An aquatic fish thought to be endangered has been discovered in south-east Turkey after an almost 50-year disappearance. Experts participating on the Quest for the said endangered species initiative discovered a marine water Batman river loach that had not been sighted since 1974. ....
Feb 10, 2021 03:00 AM EST (Photo : Bruce A.S.Henderson on Wikimedia Commons) The discovery in 1938 of a living coelacanth of South Africa s coast was quite a shock, as it was thought that these species were extinct. Thanks to their eerie similarity to near-identical creatures spotted in the fossil record, the big fish were eventually referred to as living fossils. A recent study published in Molecular Biology and Evolution reveals that at least one genus of the coelacanth, formally referred to as Latimeria chalumnae, is not the living fossil it is thought to be, having gained hundreds of new genes over the past 23 million years, a startling discovery and a far cry from the belief that the species has hardly evolved since its ancestors appeared over 300 mi Moreover, the discovery is further confirmation that the idea of living fossils is obsolete and something of a misnomer. ....