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Extinct Fish Species That Existed Over 420 Million Years Ago Found Alive in the Indian Ocean
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A rare fish species believed to have gone extinct with dinosaurs millions of years ago has recently been rediscovered alive in the Indian Ocean.
According to a report from Mongabay, a US-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform, a group of South African shark hunters recently found the rare coelacanth species (
Latimeria chalumnae) in the West Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar.
The coelacanth species is also known as the four-legged fossil fish and dates back to 420 million years ago. The species lives in undersea canyons at depths between 100 and 500 meters and weighs up to 90 kilograms, per Mongabay s report. ....

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