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COELACANTH This is a fossil with both negative and positive slabs.
Age: 95 million years
Period: Cretaceous
Location: Lebanon
The coelacanth is a large fish some 150 cen-
timeters in length, whose body is all covered
by thick scales reminiscent of armor. It is a
member of the class of bony fishes
(Ostechthyes), of which the earliest fossils are
found in strata belonging to the Devonian
Period (417 to 354 million years ago). For
years, evolutionists portrayed fossils be-
longing to this vertebrate as belonging to an
intermediate form, until the capture of a live
coelacanth invalidated such claims.
Research into the fish's anatomy again in-
flicted a major defeat on Darwinists.
In an article in Nature magazine, an evolu-
tionist paleontologist named Peter Forey
said this:
"The discovery of Latimeria [coelacanth]
raised hopes of gathering direct information
on the transition of fish to amphibians, for
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