The World's Oldest Fish: Thought to Be Extinct for 60 Million Years, Then Rediscovered

The World's Oldest Fish: Thought to Be Extinct for 60 Million Years, Then Rediscovered

Among the many wonders of the ocean, few stories captivate the imagination as much as that of a fish once believed to have vanished from the Earth. For decades, scientists assumed this prehistoric creature had long since disappeared—until an astonishing discovery challenged everything we thought we knew about marine life.A Surprising Find That Reshaped ScienceBefore 1938, the coelacanth was considered a textbook example of an extinct species, wi…

The largest bee in the world is a surprising insect, and not only because of its size. That is to say, in addition to impacting with its body dimensions, it also stands out for its ability to hide in the eyes of humans for more than 100 years. In the middle of 1859, a British naturalist described the first specimen. But, after the discovery, no one else observed a living being of these characteristics again and it was thought that the species wa…