Article: A distant cousin's secret shuffle. (observations of the primitive fish, Coelacanth, in the Indian Ocean)

Article: Biologist finds second population of primitive fish
AP Online;  September 24, 1998 ;     548 words ... ... A biologist has found a second population of a rare, primitive fish whose origins date to the dinosaur era. The so-called ... Latimeria chalumnae, found on the opposite side of the Indian Ocean in the Comoro Islands, though it is brown with white flecks ...

Article: Primitive fish may be ancestor of man (1)
Xinhua News Agency;  January 30, 2003 ;     450 words ...Primitive fish may be ancestor of man (1) XI'AN, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- Latest scientific findings prove that the jawless Haikou fish ...

Article: Primitive fish may be ancestor of man (2)
Xinhua News Agency;  January 30, 2003 ;     437 words ...Primitive fish may be ancestor of man (2) In 1999, a group of Chinese scholars, including Shu, also discovered fossils of the Haikou fish ...

Article: A primitive fish lures scientists to Maine
The Boston Globe;  September 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ...BAR HARBOR, Maine - The Mount Desert Island Biological Lab has been perched on the Maine coast for nearly a century, in a sort of eddy beside the main tourist route to Bar Harbor. Scientists still do their lab work in shingled cottages at water's edge, but it is not the scenery that has drawn 70

Article: South China, Birthplace of Primitive Fish: ...
Xinhua News Agency;  February 28, 2001 ;     367 words ...A leading Chinese paleontologist Wednesday confirmed that south China might have been the cradle of the primitive "bonefish", which is widely regarded as the origin of all modern vertebrates, including human beings. Zhu Min, a research professor at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and

Article: Duke alumnus happens upon coelacanth in different range
University Wire;  September 28, 1998 ;     326 words ... ... 100 coelacanths have been sighted, this was the first one found outside a 100 kilometer stretch of the Indian Ocean. The primitive fish was once thought to be a direct ancestor of humans. Biologists pictured the fish long ago using its fleshy ...

Article: Indian Ocean Variability in the GFDL Coupled ...
Journal of Climate;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... ABSTRACT The interannual variability of the Indian Ocean, with particular focus on the Indian Ocean dipole/zonal mode (IODZM), is investigated ... characteristics of the climate system of the Indian Ocean. The character of the IODZM is explored ...