420-million-year-old fish with four legs that predates dinosaurs found alive in Africa
Several shark hunters stumbled upon a previously unknown population of coelacanths, a 420-million-year-old ‘fossil fish’ that was once thought to be extinct. The discovery was made in the southwestern part of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The remarkable find, first outlined by Mongabay News, stems from the result that the shark hunters were using gillnets … Read more