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MEMBCI OF A FISH FAMILY Believed to have become extinct 75,000,000 i years ago, a new species of coelacanth is now in Durban. South Africa. In custody of Prof. J. L. B. Smith, Rhodes University ichthyologist. Until this specimen was caught by c fisherman off Cornore island in the Indian Ocean, only a skin had previously been found. This was used to prepare th* above mpdel, reconstructed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The fish is the earliest known an cestor of land-living vertebrates. Its discovery caused a sensation.
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