Video: Indonesian coelacanth
A month ago, I posted that an Indonesian coelacanth had been caught on video by Japanese researchers. Thought to have been extinct for 65 million years, the coelacanth was "rediscovered" in 1938. It was thought that they only lived off the coast of Africa, but in 1998, an entirely different species of coelacanth was discovered swimming around near Indonesia. (More background from cryptozoologist Loren Coleman in this Cryptomundo post.) A team from Aquamarine Fukushima videotaped one just four weeks ago using an underwater robot. The video is now available on YouTube. What a beautiful beastie! Link (via Planet Timbotron)
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David Pescovitz
Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.
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