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First photo of baby coelacanth

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Above is the world’s first photograph of a baby coelacanth, recently taken by Japanese researchers off Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island. A cryptozoology favorite, coelacanths were thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was found alive in 1938.

“First Baby Coelacanth Photos Taken” (Cryptomundo)

“Aquarium snaps world’s first photos of young coelacanth” (Japan Times)

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