davo;476179; said:
Been up to my dupa in alligators lately. I'll try to free up some time to get the posts and pics going. In the meantime, here's the cretaceous aro ancient forefather I said I'd post:
Most ancient species exists?
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Been up to my dupa in alligators lately. I'll try to free up some time to get the posts and pics going. In the meantime, here's the cretaceous aro ancient forefather I said I'd post:
yea there were some confirmed reports of them there... i thought they were supposed to be extinct like millions of years ago, until a tribe was found to be harvesting them for food!
roybryan;578967; said:
Not wrong. The coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) occurs in the areas between eastern South Africa and the Comoro Islands.
A recently discovered species (Latimeria menadoensis) was located in Sulwesi, Indonesia.
davo;476179; said:
Is this what you were looking for Davo?
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40774
Cool, I didn't know another species of Coelacanth was discovered. I have to go with the Agnatha (Hagfish and Lampreys) as the most primitive fish besides the fishlike cephalochordates. The latter are filter feeders so they are not really predators. The Hagfish are scavengers of the deep sea and are found whenever a corpse sinks to the bottom. The fish can tie a knot at its tail and work it down quickly to its head to gain leverage to pull out a chunk of flesh. This is how it feeds.
