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Jan. 01, 1976 - Coelacanth mystery solved : what has puzzled naturalists was today selves when the natural history museum displayed a coelacanth embryo, thus preying then this creature gives birth to fully formed babies like sharks and human. Fossil records show the Coalacanth to be about 350 million years old and was thought to be extinct, until one was found to be living, near Madagascan in 1938 since then about 80 have been caught, one containing eggs, naturalist were puzzled how fertilization took place, ac the male coelacanth appears to lack external organs. But a recently caught cola chant sent to the American museum of natural history for dissection, was found to contain five advanced embryos lying in an aid not. Each embryos was still attached to the yolk sac of a large egg, which serves as food during its development. It is one of these embryos- each of which were about 30 centimeters long and already resembling a minis true adult fish which is being put on view at the natural history museum in long on today. photo shows The coelacanth on view at the Natural history Museum in London today

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