The Jurassic Coelacanth Undina (IMAGE)

University of Bristol

The Jurassic Coelacanth Undina

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The coelacanth fish, found today in the Indian Ocean, is often called a 'living fossil' because its last ancestors existed about 70 million years ago and it has survived into the present -- but without leaving any fossil remains younger than that time. Now, some much older coelacanth remains have been uncovered in a fossil deposit near Bristol by Harry Allard, a student at the University of Bristol, UK.

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Harry Allard

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