Huge Fish, Once Believed Extinct, Isn’t the ‘Living Fossil’ Scientists Thought - Gizmodo

Here's some fishy news from the world of genetics. The coelacanth was considered an extinct species until a living specimen was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Scientists referred to it as a Living Fossil because it seemed nearly identical to the species found in fossil records. Turns out scientists were wrong because the coelacanth has acquired dozens of new genes over the past 23 million years. So we now know the secret of this ancient species' survival. It's sneaky. There's some other fishy news out of Florida, and it's troubling. Amazonian “River Monster� Discovered In The Caloosahatchee River is a further indicator that global warming is destabilizing ecosystems, and may well impact the Floridian tourist industry as a predatory fish species takes advantage of a ready supply of food. (i.e.commercial fish stocks, not swimmers!) Seems you can't trust any fish these days. (CM)

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