Uploaded December 2016 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

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In this episode we examine the failed human ancestor, the Coelacanth.
This supposed transitional form between aquatic and land-based organisms was thought to be extinct for sixty-six million years, but was found, very much alive, in modern times.

References:


Creationist Arguments
icr.org/article/coelacanths-evolutionists-still-fishing
creation.com/correcting-the-headline-coelacanth-yes-ancient-no
creationscience.com/onlinebook/AstroPhysicalSciences27.html


A comprehensive accound of the Latimer/Smith discovery
pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fish/letters.html

Nature paper on coelacanth genome
nature.com/nature/journal/v496/n7445/pdf/nature12027.pdf

Hands and fins
nytimes.com/2016/08/18/science/from-fins-into-hands-scientists-discover-a-deep-evolutionary-link.html?_r=1
dev.biologists.org/content/122/10/2997.long
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25980463
nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7619/abs/nature19322.html qabalaHCTMRS49