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Jeffersons Ghost

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15. Are you a cryptozoology enthusiast?
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 03:46 PM
Sep 2019

In defense of cryptozoology, examples of actual animals - previously thought to be mythical - include: giant squids and gorillas.

Another animal thought to be extinct, until one was caught is the coelacanth.


The primitive-looking coelacanth (pronounced SEEL-uh-kanth) was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. But its discovery in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated the world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe-finned fish fits into the evolution of land animals.

With its lobed fins, an primordial relative of this fish could have crawled ashore to become an ancestor of ALL land animals.

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