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Coelacanth was caught in South Africa. State the significance of discovery of Coelacanth in the evolutionary history of vertebrates.

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 

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A fish caught in South Africa in 1938 happened to be a Coelacanth which was thought to be extinct. These animals called lobefins evolved into the first amphibians that lived on both land and water.

These were ancestors of modern-day frogs and salamanders.

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