Dinofish
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I've been watching a documentary on the Coelacanths. It is what the press call the Dinofish.
* Virtually unique in the animal kingdom, with a saga steeped in science and popular imagination, the fabulous Coelacanth ("see-la-kanth"), that 400 million year old "living fossil," swims on. Pre-dating the dinosaurs by millions of years and once thought to have gone extinct with them 65 million years ago, the Coelacanth was "discovered" alive and well in 1938! *
Well, watching the documentary got me all fired up to read up more on this amazing fish. But what I can't imagine is that this ancient fish might be our ancestor. The fish became the ape, then the ape became us.... Fish food for thought. The coelacanth has very unfish-like fins. The fins are akin to what I can only term as limbs as it was bendable beyond the usual 80-90 degree angle of most fish fins. Since the rediscovery of the coelacanth in 1938, there have been recent sightings and even filming of the historical fish in it natural environment. It is truly an amazing blessing to discover that there are other living dinosaurs alive and well in todays world. Or rather amazing animals we never thought to see - from myth to reality -the giant squid, the megamouth shark, and the tasmanian tiger. How about the mythical lake monsters like Nessie? Maybe there is such an animal living in the black depths of our oceans and rivers. If the giant squid and the sperm whale can dive THAT deep, there must be other mysterious creatures thriving down there. If only the whales could talk, then they could tell us what's down there. People have tried to record what is in the depths but still to no avail. They even tagged a sperm whale when it went down to hunt, but the camera came off at 700ft i think ( I saw that documentary a long time ago). I'm in awe of God's creations. The whales have this oil thing (like the coelacanths) in their heads to keep themselves from being crushed by the immense pressure. Does the giant squid have a similiar edge? Hmm...
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