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An amateur fish enthusiast recognised it at once as a Coelacanth, a fish thought to be extinct for 70 million years. Since then several have been caught, and this one is pride of place in the Central Hall. Today the prehistoric Coelacanth can be found in deep water around East Africa and Indonesia. It' s a story of survival that astonished the scientific community. And one that shows you never know what' s out there until you look, especially in the depths of the ocean, the world' s last truly unexplored ecosystem. Mark Carwardine caught a boat from the west coast of Sweden in search of a species new to science. In 2003, the carcass of a stranded whale was sunk here by scientists looking at the importance of whale carcases to the ecology of the ocean floor. |
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yī míng yè yú yú lèi ài hào zhě dāng jí rèn chū zhè shì yī tiáo máo wěi yú, zhī qián bèi rèn wéi yǐ miè jué le qī qiān wàn nián zhī jiǔ, cǐ hòu rén men lù xù bǔ huò shù tiáo máo wěi yú, rú jīn zhè tiáo yú chén liè zài zhōng yāng dà tīng de zhòng yào wèi zhì. rú jīn, zhè zhǒng shǐ qián máo wěi yú zài dōng fēi hé yìn dù ní xī yà fù jìn de shēn hǎi zhōng chū xiàn. zhè zhǒng yú lèi shàng wèi miè jué de xiāo xī, zhèn jīng le zhěng gè kē xué jiè. zhè jiàn shì shuō míng, bù qù tàn suǒ jiù yǒng yuǎn bù zhī dào huì zhǎo dào shén me, tè bié shì zài hǎi yáng shēn chù. shì jiè shang zuì hòu yí gè wèi bèi tàn suǒ de shēng tài xì tǒng, mǎ kè kǎ wò dīng dēng chuán cóng ruì diǎn xī hǎi àn chū fā, sōu xún xīn wù zhǒng. 2003 nián, kē xué jiā bǎ yī tiáo jīng yú de shī hái, chén rù hǎi dǐ, yòng lái guān chá yán jiū jīng yú shī hái duì hǎi dǐ shēng tài suǒ qǐ dào de zhòng yào zuò yòng. |