Shoshonia arctopteryx (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Shoshonia arctopteryx

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Recently found in northern Wyoming, the coelacanth fossil is 400 million years old.

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Photo courtesy of Matt Friedman/University of Chicago

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