Prehistoric Fish Mystery
(Rec. 9 p.m.) TANANARIVE (Madagascar), May 6. One of the mysteries of the coelacanth is still unsolved after scientists yesterday examined the latest specimens of the rarest fish in the world.
The mystery is whether the blackscaly fish give birth to their young or hatch eggs. A coelacanth caught on Friday night off the Comora Islands, between Madagascar and the African mainland, was brought to Tananarive today aboard a French military aircraft. The prehistoric “fish with arms.” regarded as a missing link between man and primitive life, was a female 36.9 inches long and weighting 165.31 b. Her eggs were not sufficiently developed to determine whether coelacanths bring forth their young alive or produce unhatched eggs. Scientists hope that coelacanths will reveal the secrets of prehistoric life. They are believed to date back 300.000.000 years, when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27962, 8 May 1956, Page 13
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