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Golden jubilee for the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae

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Fifty years ago this week, Latimeria chalumnae was discovered, the only living representative of the otherwise extinct coelacanth fishes. Half a century of research shows it is not the hoped for missing link between fish and land vertebrates and there are now fears that it too will become extinct before its centenary.

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Forey, P. Golden jubilee for the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. Nature 336, 727–732 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/336727a0

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