Answer: coelacanth

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COELACANTHFish rediscovered off the coast of Africa in 1938
coelacanthany of a group of primitive crossopterygian fishes
coelacanthA large, bony marine fish with a three-lobed tail fin and fleshy pectoral fins. It is thought to be related to the ancestors of land vertebrates and was known only from fossils until one was found alive in 1938; since then others have been found near the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean and off Sulawesi, Indonesia