"Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated "living fossil" fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor. The African coelacanth is closely related to the fish lineage that started to move toward a major evolutionary transformation, living on land. And it hasn't changed much from its ancestors of even 300 million years ago, researchers said.
At one time, scientists thought coelacanths died out some 70 million years ago. But in a startling discovery in 1938, a South African fish trawler caught a living specimen. Its close resemblance to its ancient ancestors earned it the "living fossil" nickname.
And in line with that, analysis shows its genes have been remarkably slow to change, {Maybe because they were CREATED with a limited genetic diversity, could that be why there is so LITTLE change that it "looks" slow?} an international team of researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.
At one time, scientists thought coelacanths died out some 70 million years ago. But in a startling discovery in 1938, a South African fish trawler caught a living specimen. Its close resemblance to its ancient ancestors earned it the "living fossil" nickname.
And in line with that, analysis shows its genes have been remarkably slow to change, {Maybe because they were CREATED with a limited genetic diversity, could that be why there is so LITTLE change that it "looks" slow?} an international team of researchers reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Maybe that's because the sea caves where the coelacanth lives provide such a stable environment, said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, senior author of the paper and a gene expert at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass."CTV News - {OR-Maybe it's because they were CREATED that way-but if U wanna blame it on the cave-LOL-go ahead....}
And God created great whales,
And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth,
which the
waters brought forth abundantly,
after their kind,
and every winged fowl after
his kind:
and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:21