How to Use coelacanth in a Sentence

coelacanth

noun

• The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found.
  — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• But in 1938, the discovery of a modern coelacanth was like seeing a fossil come back to life.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 22 Dec. 2017
• This is good for the coelacanths as all are considered endangered.
  — Lynne Parenti, Smithsonian, 14 Mar. 2018
• Some other living fossils include the coelacanth, the horseshoe crab, and the nautilus.
  — Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2011
• Some have looked at coelacanths and sarcopterygians, or lungfish (the latter use their pelvic fins to move in a motion like walking).
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 Feb. 2018
• The polarized light microscope revealed five times more rings in the coelacanth’s scales than anyone had seen before.
  — Max G. Levy, Wired, 23 June 2021
• Take the coelacanth, a bony fish that was thought to have become extinct millions of years ago but was found in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a fishing trawler.
  — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Some years ago, the story of the Smithsonian’s coelacanth took an interesting twist.
  — Lynne Parenti, Smithsonian, 14 Mar. 2018
• Its relatives were once widespread and more diverse, but now, like the coelacanth, they’ve been reduced to two endangered species living on the New Zealand islands.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2021
• The coelacanth, for example, is probably four or even five times [larger] than today's coelacanth.
  — Fox News, 28 Apr. 2020
• In the past, scientists calculated fish ages by counting big lines on a specific coelacanth scale.
  — Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 17 June 2021
• According to the study, researchers first interpreted such impressions as claw marks, ripples from fish or paths made by turtles or coelacanths.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 May 2017
• But how much of an impact these accidental catches are having on the overall population of either coelacanth species is completely unknown.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 21 May 2021
• Long thought to have gone extinct alongside the dinosaurs, the coelacanth’s rediscovery in 1938 is considered one of that century’s greatest zoological findings.
  — Jessica Boddy, Popular Science, 8 Apr. 2020
• Including, but certainly not limited to, exhibitions dedicated to Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, the museum also focuses on those cryptids that were eventually proven real, like the coelacanth.
  — Kaye Toal, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024