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- noun Plural form of
coelacanth .
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This prompts me to ask, what about the other sarcopterygians, namely coelacanths and dipnoid lungfish?
3 recent reports use evolution to study mechanisms of antibody diversification - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Extreme examples of stasis are the so-called “living fossils” such as coelacanths, horseshoe crabs, and Kakabekia.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Alan Pradel, one of the researchers, says there is no sign of brain deformation that would result from shrinkage and some very old existing fish species such as coelacanths have a similar arrangement.
robots.net 2009
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Several bits previously featured on BB made the cut, including the eating of a near-extinct bird, baby coelacanths, and alligators in the sewers.
Boing Boing 2009
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A Tanzanian harbor project could be detrimental to a local population of coelacanths.
Archive 2009-02-01 2009
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A better example than the mudskipper would be the coelacanths, or lobe-fin fish which, along with lungfish, diverged about the same time as tetrapods (as supported by genetic evidence).
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Neither lungfish nor coelacanths are known to carry the parasites.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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That Shoshonia and living coelacanths are different is perhaps not entirely surprising – coelacanths have, after all, been evolving for 400 million years.
Boing Boing 2007
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Indeed, Old Fourlegs was the title of a popular book on coelacanths written by J.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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The other led to bony fish with fleshy lobe fins, such as lungfish and coelacanths.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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