"Dinosaur Fish" found by Divers in South Africa
On a video from NatGeoWild, a group of divers in South Africa comes face to face with a Coelacanth.
 |
| A screenshot from the video. |
Meet the living fossil, the "ancient" fish
Coelacanths ("see-la-kanth"), meaning "hollow spine", also known as "Old Four Legs" and called as the "Living Fossil" because it's current form hasn't changed in the past hundred millions of years.
 |
| The Dinofish of the new generation. |
They were also considered as transitional species between fish and tetrapods. They can grow up to 6.5 feet and weight about 200 pounds. They have cosmoid scales as an armor and they have 8 fins: 2 dorsal fins, 2 pectoral fins, 2 pelvic fins, 1 anal fin and 1 caudal fin.
As a food, these lungfishes are not good to eat because its flesh are hard to digest and produces different compounds that are not good for human consumption. Source: Wikipedia
Video by NatGeoWild on YouTube.
No comments