What is coelacanth?

Colacanth is a fish with a lobe, similar to the predecessor of all earthly vertebrates. It was a fish -like fish that originally developed legs and started walking on the ground for 360 million years. It was assumed that colacanths were extinct for at least 100 million years, which occur only in the form of fossils until a living sample near the chamber islands in 1938 was found in 1938, causing an international feeling. The word describing a group that was considered extinct but subsequently discovered alive is "Lazarus taxon". By exploring their earbones, scientists know that Coelocanths are long-term-some living up to 80 to 100 years. There is an African species that has a dark blue color that helps him mask, and the Indonesian species that is brown. Coelacanths have very sensitive eyes and you are hunting at night. The rest of the day rest deep in the water column and dwell at depths of up to 2,300 ft.

coelacanths are opportunistic and flexible feeders, hunting eel, sepia, octopus, small sharks and other fish. Some of their evolutionary success stems from their ability to descend to build black depths and suspend their metabolisms and go into hibernation of species. It is assumed that Coelacant has existed more or less in its current form for 100 million years. The closest living relative coelacanth is Australian Lungfish, which was previously a fish that was considered the most closely related to the predecessor of all tetraples.

coelacanths are considered a representative of the oldest living line of frequency animals. More primitive fish Armissary that it is extinct. Because of their prehistoric appearance and rarity, coelacanths are symbolic ancient life. Only a few hundreds were sometimes caught and are considered a critically endangered species.