New Species in the Wild: Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

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	This species of lizard of the genus Bachia is one of the new species discovered during the expedition. Although there are other species of the genus in the Cerrado (almost all discovered and described only recently), this new species has only been recorded in the Ecological Station. The absence of legs and the sharply pointed snout help in locomotion over the surface layer of sandy soil, predominating in all the Jalapao, formed by the natural erosion of the escarpments of the Serra Geral plateaus. (Credit: Copyright CI/Cristiano Nogueira)

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

Japanese marine researchers said on Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" in deep water off Indonesia. The creature was found on October 6 at a depth of 161 metres (528 feet) in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, where the Indonesian coelacanth was first discovered, according to the researchers. Video footage showed the 31.5 centimetre (12.6-inch) coelacanth, coloured blue with white spots, swimming slowly among rocks on the seabed for about 20 minutes.

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Image credit: AFP/AQUAMARINE FUKUSHIMA

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Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

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