Coelacanth

The coelacanth, the famous prehistoric fish that was brought up in a fishing net  in 1938, was long thought to be extinct until that fateful fishing trip. It was brought up from the depths of the Indian Ocean. Since that day dozens of other specimens have ended up in fishing nets. However, their fossil history is not so well known. None, we are told there are actually penty of coelacanths in modern museum collections. These were until now, unrecognised. They were previously assigned to a small marine reptile. These also exist as fossils but many examples are actually coelacanths. Some 50 coelacanth fossils came from western Britain and they may even have fed on the small reptiles. See https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2025.2520921 …