Calcutta Residents Claim Coelacanth Fished Out of Ganges River
austriantimes.at - Indian paleontologists are heading to Calcutta in West Bengal after locals claimed to have fished a prehistoric Coelacanth out of the water.
Coelacanths were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period until the first specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa in 1938.
Since then they have been found in the Comoros, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.
But the experts are trying to work out how what would be the biggest ever Coelacanth specimen weighing 320 kilos came to be floating down the Ganges.
The fish, eight feet long and three feet wide, had a cut on its stomach and some of the fins had been torn free.
Official stands by kids who raised the alarm saying: "Initially we thought that a big sea animal was coming to devour us, it was only when we got out the water we realised it was dead."
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To clarify the picture for my own satisfaction, I brought the color image into Photoshop, cropped down to the main shape, and turned the picture to grayscale. Then I hit the image with adjustments for contrast and brightness.
The animal, and indeed it is an animal because it exhibits bilateral symmetry, is viewed with its port side towards the land.
What shows up very clear is a pair of cresc">
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