Page 495 - Atlas of Creation Volume 1

Harun Yahya

The coelacanth is a large fish, about 150 centimeters (5 feet) in
length, its body covered with thick scales that resemble armor. It
belongs to the boned fish classification Osteichthyes, and the first
fossil specimens were discovered in strata belonging to the
Devonian Period. Until 1938, many evolutionists imagined that
this fish used its two pairs of fins to walk on the sea bottom and
that it was an intermediate form between marine and terrestrial
animals. To support their claim, evolutionists pointed to the bony
structure of the fins evident in the coelacanth fossils they had
obtained.

However, a development in 1938 completely disproved the claims
regarding intermediate species, when a living coelacanth was
caught off the coast of South Africa. This creature had been
thought to have become extinct at least 70 million years ago.
Research showed that the coelacanth had undergone no change in
400 million years.

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