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The coelacanth may live for a century — that's not great news

14 mins | Jul 12, 2021
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The race is on to save the prehistoric species. Scale markings reveal that a weird deep water fish has double the lifespan of what scientists first estimated. But, as Max G. Levy reveals, this also means that the African Coelacanth is closer to extinction than we thought.

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