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Coelacanths: Evolutionists Still Fishing in Shallow Water by Timothy L. Clarey, Ph.D., and Jeffrey Tomkins, Ph.D. * A recent report, published in Nature,1 on the genome sequence of the so-called living fish fossil, the African coelacanth, has some evolutionists scrambling to defend their story. This is because the coelacanth's DNA is similar to other types of fish and not land animals, thus forcing the evolutionists to postulate that the coelacanth evolved slowly.1 Although modern coelacanths are found in water about 500 feet deep, Axel Meyer, a member of the study team believes that ancient coelacanths may have lived in shallow...

Did KZN coelacanths all come from one mom? April 28 2003 at 07:16AM By Tony Carnie Underwater scientists exploring the ocean depths off South Africa have plucked a "missing link" fish scale from one of several prehistoric coelacanths for genetic paternity tests. The scale was removed from the rare fish at Sodwana, KwaZulu-Natal, using a tiny dart gun and a remote-controlled, robotic arm mounted on the German mini-submarine Jago earlier this week. The Jago, owned by the Max Planck research institute, is part of an international expedition to learn more about the coelacanth population of Sodwana Bay. Several more scales...