forest of fossil fish

forest of fossil fish
Originally uploaded by megan_n_smith_99

jesse and i helped nusz move stuff today. or, jesse helped and i sat there. i hope if i had tried to help they would have both stopped me. getting better but still quite fatigued and still some pain from incisions.

this drawing is :
forest of fossil fish
8 x 8 inches
pen and ink

these are coelacanths. they were believed to have been extinct for 65 million years until one was caught off the coast of south africa. they live in deep waters and are not often seen in shallow waters where people fish. they have bones in their fins, a primitive trait not seem in more modern fish. in their descendents these limbs evolved into limbs which they used to move about on land.