LARGE SIZE (approx 26"to 28") INTERNET SPECIAL PRICE  $400.00 EACH  ( prices are quoted in USD - domestic shipping & handling included in price)

APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO, IN A TIME SCIENCE CALLS THE DEVONIAN, A FAMILY OF FISH APPEARED THAT THEY NAMED COELACANTH. IT WAS A FISH THAT HAD SHORT LIMBS WITH FINS ON THEM AND HAD A SMALL TAIL THAT EXTENDED PAST THE END OF IT’S REGULAR TAIL. IT APPEARED TO BE A SORT OF MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF FISHES. THEY SWAM IN THE WATERS OF THE WORLD UNTIL ABOUT SEVENTY MILLION YEARS AGO WHEN THEY APPEARED TO BECOME EXTINCT. THAT IS, UNTIL DECEMBER OF 1938, WHEN A TRAWLER OFF OF THE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA CAUGHT A LIVE COELACANTH IN IT’S NET. THIS WAS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST NATURAL HISTORY DISCOVERY OF THIS CENTURY. IT TOOK A FURTHER TEN YEARS TO FIND THE NEXT ONE. THAT ONE WAS FOUND OFF OF THE COAST OF THE COMORO ISLANDS IN THE Indian Ocean. IN THE LATE 1990S A NEW POPULATION OF THESE FISH WAS FOUND AT THE NORTH END OF THE ISLAND OF SULUWESI IN INDONESIA AND A FEW YEARS LATER A POPULATION WAS FOUND OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH AFRICA, APPARENTLY CLOSE TO WHERE THE FIRST ONE WAS FOUND. STILL, LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED, OR SO, OF THESE FISH HAS EVER BEEN SEEN BY SCIENCE AND NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN ABLE TO KEEP ONE ALIVE FOR MORE THAN A FEW HOURS. THE MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD WHO ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A PRESERVED SPECIMEN TO STUDY AND DISPLAY ARE INDEED FORTUNATE.

WE HOPE TO HAVE AVAILABLE A FEW CARVED COELACANTHS SOON. THEY WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 26 INCHES LONG AND OF THE SAME QUALITY AS OUR ASIAN DRAGON FISH.