coelacanth造句
(1) Many species of coelacanth have been found as fossils.
(2) Nor can the living coelacanth suggest an answer, for today it never leaves its deep waters.
(3) Indeed, almost the most valuable part of the coelacanth anatomy, to the Comoreans, is its rough heavy scales.
(4) The coelacanth inhabits the deep sea.
(5) It is often claimed that the coelacanth has remained unchanged for millions of years, but, in fact, the living species and even genus are unknown from the fossil record.
(6) He instantly identified it as a coelacanth, a species believed extinct for 60 million years.
(7) The Coelacanth has very large eyes and distinct silver blue scales with white markings.
(8) There are also sub species found of the Coelacanth but the real Coelacanth is found today in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and even the South Pacific.
(9) Named by a 19th-century naturalist, "coelacanth" comes from the Greek for "hollow spine"—a reference to the hollow spines that are part of its fin structure.
(10) For the sake of consistency, animals falsely thought to be extinct have not been included (coelacanth, Chacoan Peccary, ivory-billed woodpecker).
(11) Sarcopterygians are a group of prehistoric fish which are traditionally classed as lobe-finned fishes, which in the real world include the modern day lungfish and the coelacanth, Latimeria.
(12) Cryptozoologists are especially proud of the catch in 1938 of a coelacanth, an archaic-looking species of fish that had been thought to have gone extinct in the Cretaceous.
(13) It is considered dull work to catalogue fish. One of the great taxonomists is J. L. B. Smith of South Africa, the discoverer of the fabulous coelacanth.
(14) Scientists have captured the world's first images of a baby coelacanth recently . It is an extremely rare type of fish known as a 'living fossil'.
(15) Scientists have captured the world's first images of a baby coelacanth recently - an extremely rare type of fish known as a 'living fossil'.
(16) However, the invasion of the so-called elpistostegalians—distant relatives of the coelacanth—"got wiped out by these extinction events, " McGhee explained.