Word: coelacanth
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There seems to be no place that Attenborough's camera has not gone: to all seven continents and the seas that separate them, into the air and deep under the water. One coup was capturing on film a living coelacanth, a fish once thought to lave died out 70 million years ago. With a brief foreword by Attenborough, whose unpretentiousness has an eloquence all its own, the footage of an extremely ugly fish Becomes oddly moving. The coelacanth has limblike fins, and it is likely that one of its ancestors was the first to climb onto he land...