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Mike Wehner
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Imagine casting your line into the ocean and pulling out a living dinosaur. When a group of fishermen off the coast of Madagascar pulled in their net way back in 1938 they came as close to that kind of discovery as anyone on Earth will ever experience. The crew hauled up a coelacanth, and until that very moment, nobody knew that the fish even still existed, and the only evidence that the massive fish ever graced Earth's oceans was in the form of fossils that were millions of years old.
Since that incredible and groundbreaking catch, hundreds of additional coelacanth specimens have been caught around Madagascar, which is thought to be their primary distribution point. The fish, which have since been split into two distinct species, are still kicking around the island, but because seeing one is relatively rare and no formal conservation studies have been done, nobody knows how well the populations are doing, or if they might soon go extinct for real.
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