PARIS (AFP) - A little elbow grease, some formaldehyde, and a lot of ingenuity - that's what it took for taxidermists at the Museum of Natural History to prettify a giant squid along with a coelacanth, a rare fish known as the 'living fossil'.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - A little elbow grease, some formaldehyde, and a lot of ingenuity - that's what it took for taxidermists at the Museum of Natural History to prettify a giant squid along with a coelacanth, a rare fish known as the"living fossil".
"It's the real thing!", enthused Christophe Gottini, who has been primping and plumping inert creatures at the museum for nearly half-a-century. "The squid looks as if it's having a psychotic episode." Before becoming a permanent exhibit, this dainty specimen - the largest grow up to 18 metres - lived off the coast of New Zealand, where it was caught in 2000.
Related to lungfish, coelacanths were long thought to have disappeared with the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous, some 66 million years ago.Because that specimen matched fossils dating back several hundred million years, it became known as the"living fossil". It was a further two decades before any more coelacanths were discovered.The coelacanth under Gottini's care was in need of a serious makeover.
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