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Scientists were shocked when a coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was found off Africa's coast in 1938. They had believed the fish went extinct 65 million years ago, as did a related lineage of prehistoric fishes.
The fish has been a source of fascination ever since. Several other coelacanths have been caught in recent decades, including another in the species-rich waters of Sulawesi in 1998.
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Probably because nobody called the dumb thing a coelacanth until some idiot found the skeleton of one and deemed it to be an ancient fish that lived millions of years ago. What a joke.