Kraken Legends
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Lost

Fishes that are gone, and the few that came back.A different genre: not how to take them, but what was lost and how it happened.
A dark blue lobe-finned fish with fleshy limb-like fins
Coelacanth. Known only from fossils and thought extinct for tens of millions of years — until one was caught alive in 1938. Drawing by Robbie Cada, FishBase Public domain
Fishes · Lost

Coelacanth

Latimeria chalumnae

A fish known only from fossils and thought extinct since the days of the dinosaurs. In December 1938 a trawler hauled one up off South Africa.…