Lobe-Finned Fish Alive Today: Discovering Surviving Species like Lungfish and Coelacanth
The only lobe-finned fish alive today are the two extant coelacanth species. They are Latimeria chalumnae, found in the Indian Ocean in 1938, and Latimeria menadoensis, discovered in Indonesia in 1999. These fish represent the last survivors of an ancient lineage. The coelacanth, another lobe-finned fish, was believed extinct for around 66 million years until … Read more