Ocean Fish · Deep Sea Fish
Coelacanth
The fish everyone thought was gone forever!
How big is it?
SuperpowerIts fins are thick and fleshy. It moves them like legs, the way you move your arms and legs when you crawl.
EatsFish and squid that it finds at night.
LivesIn deep, dim caves off Africa and Indonesia.
Big surprisePeople thought it died out with the dinosaurs, until a fisherman caught one in 1938!
Ooh, a tricky one! You've got this!Coelacanths were swimming in the ocean before the dinosaurs.
Coelacanth fossils are over 400 million years old. The first dinosaurs showed up about 230 million years ago.
