Which marine creature was thought to have been extinct for 80 million years until one was caught off the coast of Madagascar in 1938?

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Maia Melendez

Biology

11 December, 17:24

Which marine creature was thought to have been extinct for 80 million years until one was caught off the coast of Madagascar in 1938?

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Rayan Logan · Answer 1

Coelacanths.

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Coelacanths (seel-a-canths) were once known only from fossils and were thought to have gone extinct approximately 65 million years ago (mya), during the great extinction in which the dinosaurs disappeared.