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WOW. Thanks for that link Bingley. This is so interesting. I'm always torn when it comes to finding new animals though. Usually it means that we've penetrated their environment and they will now face extermination.
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How big do sturgeons get? On the other hand didn't they recently find a living fish that had been extinct for eons?
I just like the fact that science DOESN'T have all the answers. Just think how boring we would be if there were no mysteries left.
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> sturgeon from the World Book: Quote:
One of the best-known sturgeon is the common sturgeon, which lives in European waters. A related species, the Atlantic sturgeon, lives along the North American coast from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico. The white sturgeon of the American Pacific Coast is the largest American fish of this group. It grows to 20 feet (6 meters) long and may weigh more than 1,000 pounds (448 kilograms). The lake sturgeon lives in the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley waters.
Scientists consider the beluga to be the largest freshwater fish. It lives in the Black and Caspian seas. The largest known beluga measured 28 feet (8.5 meters) in length and weighed 2,860 pounds (1,297 kilograms). The beluga produces most European caviar. North American sturgeons were abundant once, but overfishing, dams, and pollution have greatly reduced their number.
you may be thinking of the (more World Book) Quote:
Coelacanth, pronounced SEE luh kanth, is a primitive type of fish found in the Indian Ocean. Some coelacanth fossils date from more than 300 million years ago. Scientists believed these fish had been extinct for 80 million years until a coelacanth was caught off the coast of South Africa in 1938. Since then, many more coelacanths have been caught. Coelacanths are members of an ancient group of fishes known as sarcopterygians.
I like it, too. 
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That's it, them's the ones. Thanks for doing my homework eta.
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Does anybody read National Geographic? I seem to recall reading an article saying that the Coelacanth was being fished to extinction because they were a novelty and people would catch them specifically because they bring in lots of money. I'm just not sure if it is in NG that I read it.
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I just heard recently that there is some concern, not because the coelacanth was being fished, but that they were being caught in trawler's nets. I can't find mention of the article now, but here's a great picture: CoelacanthI did see some footage once of people diving with coelacanths. way cool.
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Huh. I like that picture. You know, when you just read the articles and see pictures of something without a reference point, you don't really get the scope of an item. Beside the person like that, it seems so imposingly present, so concretely big.
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THE FILM: "Monster On the Campus" (American, 1958)
THE PREMISE: A prehistoric fish, a coelacanth, arrives at Dunsfield University for study. A student's (Troy Donahue) dog laps up some of the fish's blood on the floor and turns into a savage prehistoric wolf which attacks a woman on campus. The professor sticks his hand in the fish's mouth and is cut by its sharp teeth, thereby infecting him with the curse. Some creature commits murder on campus. Students observe a common dragonfly suck the blood of the coelacanth and turn into a ptderodactyl. Mayhem follows.
BEST LINE IN THE WHOLE FILM: "Watch closely, and you'll see evolution in reverse!"
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> evolution in reverse! Should be Hollywood's motto... 
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