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Angler Catches ' Prehistoric' Fish - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 13th Jun, 2007 - 10:26am
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An Indonesian angler caught a fish once thought to have disappeared along with the dinosaurs and held it in a quarantined pool until it died 17 hours later
Angler Catches 'prehistoric' Fish
Interesting discovery. How could this fish survived 17 hours and how can it be possible that these kind of species still alive?
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| JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian angler caught a fish once thought to have disappeared along with the dinosaurs and held it in a quarantined pool until it died 17 hours later, a biologist said Sunday. The coelacanth fish was thought to have become extinct 65 million years ago until one was found in 1938 off Africa's coast. The discovery of the so-called "living fossil" ignited worldwide interest. Several other specimens have since been found, including one in 1998 in waters off the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, where Justinus Lahama also hooked his 1.3-meter (4-foot), 50-kilogram (110-pound) fish early Saturday. The fisherman pulled it from waters near Bunaken National Marine Park, which has some of the highest levels of marine biodiversity in the world and is a popular diving spot for tourists, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas said. Lumingas classified the fish as Coelacanth Latemeria, a powerful predator with highly mobile, limb-like fins. It is usually about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weighs around 45 kilograms (100 pounds). Unlike most other fish, it gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs... |
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Man is the dominant species of this planet.
But, we're just one species. We're a genus of a family of an order of a phylum of a species that just happened to develop intelligence. We did this over millions of years of evolution.
For want of a better term, I'm going to relate evolution to "Mother Earth".
Mother Earth had lots of tricks up her sleeve. Some of those tricks were transparent, and some were just downright stupid. In evolutional terms, the stupid tricks became extinct.... or did they?
"Life" began in the oceans. A simple one-celled organism reproduced itself. Millions of years later, there were more complex organisms floating around in the oceans, and millions of more years later, fish developed. At some time, one type of fish stuck its head above the water and discovered the atmosphere, and one day, its ancestor crawled onto land. And then, one day hominid picked up a stone and whacked away at an anthill to make access to tasty ants easier. Tools became all the rage, and now we live in apartments and houses with plumbing, electricity, and all manner of mod-cons.
There you go... the history of Planet Earth in one paragraph!
It all began in the oceans, and things that live in the oceans have been around a lot longer than we have. Why shouldn't it be plausible that there are many more creatures living in the oceans than we know about? Man is a clever cookie, and now we can send deep probes to the depths of the ocean. Every time we do so, we discover new species of creatures.
New? Nope, they are old species of creatures... they're just new to us. The depth of the ocean is an environment alien to us, so why shouldn't there be creatures living there we know nothing about? Creatures we only knew before from fossils left from a time when certain areas of land lay far beneath the surface of the ocean?
I don't believe in the Loch Ness monster, but... I think it's possible there's a lot of stuff we don't know about our natural world, and if that's true, then anything is possible.
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