coelacanth

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During a splashy presentation Monday at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, the Internet giant unveiled a feature in its Google Earth program that will allow users to swim through undersea canyons as deep as the Mariana Trench and encounter creatures like a critically endangered, prehistoric fish called the coelacanth.

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  1. noun Any of various mostly extinct fishes of the order Coelacanthiformes, known only in fossil form until a single living species, Latimeria chalumnae of African marine waters, was identified in 1938.

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  • Oddly enough the coelacanth, otherwise known as the 'living fossil' does not look any larger than a common sea bass. —  IGN Complete
  • During a splashy presentation Monday at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, the Internet giant unveiled a feature in its Google Earth program that will allow users to swim through undersea canyons as deep as the Mariana Trench and encounter creatures like a critically endangered, prehistoric fish called the coelacanth. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • (02 / 26 / 2009) A harbor project in Tanzania may put a population of coelacanth at risk, reports Illegal fishing estimated at $10-24B per year —  Mongabay.com News
  • The adult coelacanth and the fish pup attract the attention of young and old alike. —  Roll Call Print Edition Current Issue
  • Some "living fossils" such as ginkgo trees, coelacanth fish and tuatara reptiles appear virtually the same today as their ancestors, which co-existed with the dinosaurs 100m years ago, while in the African Great Lakes thousands of new species of cichlid fish have appeared within the past —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. New Latin Coelacanthus, former genus name : Greek koilos, hollow; see -coel + Greek akantha, spine.
 

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