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Description: Article describing the historic discovery of this fish, details of its anatomy, and information on some other "living fossil" fish.
NOVA | Ancient Creature of the Deep | PBS This survivor from the age of dinosaurs has body parts found in no other living creature. The coelacanth gets all the attention, but there are other "fossil fish" just as fascinating.
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| Page title: | NOVA | Ancient Creature of the Deep | PBS |
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| Description: | In this companion Web site to the NOVA program Ancient Creature of the Deep, examine the anatomy of a coelacanth, take a true-false quiz on the coelacanth, read the letters sent between the woman who discovered the coelacanth and the scientist who named it, and take a look at other fossil fish. |
| IP-address: | 54.80.87.176 |