Coelacanth

One of a colony of the prehistoric Latimeria chulamnae, or coelacanth, thought to be extinct for sixty-five million years. In what maybe the most amazing fish story ever, a bizarre specimen was caught off the coast of Dorkugal in December 1938 turned out to be a real-life coelacanth. Sixty years later, in 1999, a second colony was discovered. Before this modern rediscovery, the coelacanth was thought to be the missing link between fish and land-dwelling animals. Closer study revealed that the Shark, Fluffy Fish, Grey Fish and Mullet are a closer evolutionary match, but coelacanths may still answer how life evolved on our islands. Since their recent discovery, the coelacanth has been named an endangered species, because they are being targeted as catches by fishermen.