329: Coelacanth
Don't call it a comeback, coelacanth's been here for years.
Just the Zoo of Us · ellen weatherford, christian weatherford
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Show Notes
Don't call it a comeback, coelacanth's been here for years. We discuss life on Earth 400 million years ago, a military escort mission, our own fish ancestors, five year pregnancies, underwater handstands, an unnecessarily complicated puzzle in the third generation Pokémon games, and so much more.
Works Cited:
- “The Coelacanth” - Knysna Museum
- “The Discovery” - UC Museum of Paleontology’s website
- “Earliest known coelacanth skull extends the range of anatomically modern coelacanths to the Early Devonian” - Min Zhu et al., Nature Communications, April 2012
- “Animated Life: The Living Fossil Fish | HHMI BioInteractive Video”
- “The coelacanth rostral organ is a unique low-resolution electro-detector that facilitates the feeding strike” - Rachel M. Berquist et al., Scientific Reports, March 2015
- “New scale analyses reveal centenarian African coelacanths” - Kélig Mahé et al., Current Biology, August 2021
- “Neurocranial development of the coelacanth and the evolution of the sarcopterygian head” - Hugo Dutel et al., Nature, May 2019
- “Buoyancy and hydrostatic balance in a West Indian Ocean coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae” - Henrik Lauridsen et al., BMC Biology, August 2022
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