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Indonesian fisherman nets ancient fish

Mon May 21, 1:57 AM ET

MANADO, Indonesia (Reuters) - An Indonesian fisherman has caught a coelacanth, an ancient fish once thought to have become extinct at the time of the dinosaurs, a fishery expert said on Monday.

Yustinus Lahama and his son caught the fish on Saturday in the sea off North Sulawesi province and kept it at their house for an hour, said Grevo Gerung, a professor at the fisheries faculty at the Sam Ratulangi University.

After being told by neighbours it was a rare fish he took it back to the sea and kept it in a quarantine pool for about 17 hours before it died.

"If kept outside their habitat (60 metres or 200 ft below the sea), the fish can only live for two hours. But this fish lived for about 17 hours," Gerung told Reuters.

"We will look into why it had lived that long," he said.

The fish was 131 centimetres (about four feet) long and weighed 51 kg (112 lb), Gerung said.

In 1998, fishermen a caught another coelacanth in a deep-water shark net off northern Sulawesi.

That catch came 60 years after a member of the species was rediscovered on the east coast of South Africa.

Coelacanths are known from the fossil records dating back more than 360 million years, according to the Australian Museum Fish Web site.

Before 1938 they were believed to have become extinct approximately 80 million years ago, when they disappeared from the fossil record, it said.

Coelacanths are the only living animals to have a fully functional intercranial joint, which is a division separating the ear and brain from the nasal organs and eye.

did you know...

San Diego was discovered by the Germans in 1904 and it means, "a whale's vagina"? Scholars maintain the translation was lost 100's of years ago, or it could mean St. Diego.

Fascinating to me-

Ancient coelacanth caught in Indonesia

Sun May 20, 5:39 PM ET

JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a species once thought as extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the "living fossil" alive in a quarantined pool.

Justinus Lahama caught the four-foot, 110-pound fish early Saturday off Sulawesi island near Bunaken National Marine Park, which has some of the highest marine biodiversity in the world.

The fish died 17 hours later, an extraordinary survival time, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas said Sunday.

"The fish should have died within two hours because this species only lives in deep, cold-sea environment," he said. Lumingas works at the local Sam Ratulangi University, which plans to study the carcass.

The coelacanth (pronounced SEE-la-kanth) was believed to be extinct for 65 million years until one was found in 1938 off Africa's coast, igniting worldwide interest. Several other specimens have since been discovered, including another off Sulawesi island in 1998.

The powerful predator is highly mobile with limb-like fins, and it gives birth to live young rather than laying eggs.

a little help?

Ok, I am bored. Or, am I concerned? I haven't posted here in so long, and when I was it wasn't with any regularity. I need some ideas as I am going through a mental drought.
Part of it has to do with no motivation. I am frustrated with a few things. I need to get back into being a bit more active than sitting here day in and day out. I need to be creative with my free time. Beginning with the first week in June, I will start getting things back in order. I am over my sinus/allergy whatever that I was dealing with the past 3 weeks. It is so stupid, but I haven't gotten back into my routine I was in last year up until the end of October. That is just too long to be 'out of it'. There are things I want to change about me, but I haven't done so.
Do you think it could be that I am coming to a crossroad in my life? I guess I am just a very late bloomer? Perhaps it's long overdue I step up to the plate? Take it to the next level? What is it I need to be doing? Or, maybe the better question is what is it that I should be doing?
I think know what I want, but is it possible that I haven't a clue as to what I am talking about? Why is it that I don't feel I have anything figured out, but I see so many other people who do have it all figured out, or at least appear to have done so in my eyes? There is something out there that I cannot put my finger on that I seem to not be able to grasp.
Is it possible that some things need to be re-prioritized? Do I put some importance on things that should be moved down a peg or two? Maybe there is at least one thing missing from my life and once that piece is there, perhaps everything else will come together and I will see things more clearly. I know I am asking a lot of questions, but I am just thinking out loud. Of course, I am always receptive to constructive criticism, suggestions, ideas, thoughts, opinions, etc... the truth and I don't care how abrasive it may/may not be because it is something I want to hear and need to hear. All I want is the truth and I can handle the truth. I need to see myself from a point of view that is not my own. I need to see, know, and understand the reality from another person.
There are things I am looking forward to, but am scared to death at the same time. Why do I make things more difficult than they probably are? Why do I over-analyze a lot of things?
Why do I do this to myself? I ask others to give me a chance, yet I never give myself a chance. Why do I struggle to be positive about myself in life when I am so confident in what I do for a living? Why can't Work Tab co-exist with Social Tab? Why is it I am a different person around some people, but others I am myself? Why can't I let my guard down around some people like I do my closest friends and family? Why is it I try so hard from a social standpoint that I end up wrecking something before it even has a chance? It's like I already make up someone else's mind for them instead of sincerely giving them a chance to know me and giving my chance to allow myself to be myself around them. It seems I put so much pressure on myself that I prohibit anything fun from happening and naturally evolving. Why can't I just let things go? I tend to think of myself as easy-going, but I wonder if I am just fooling myself and have been doing so for all of these years? Why is it I feel like I need so much help in figuring out my life? Why can't I just keep my big mouth shut and think before I speak? Why is it I haven't a clue about how to go about dating? Why am I so confused about life? Why do I knock myself so much? Why can't I allow myself to be happy? Why, for once, is it that I don't care about any possible spelling errors?