The coelacanth is large fish with fleshy, limb-like fins. It was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs, but then, one was found in 1938 off the coast of South Africa! Which type of scientist MOST likely looked at the coelacanth’s characteristics to identify it as a coelacanth when it was found?
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biologist
biologist
paleontologist
paleontologist
naturalist
naturalist
ecologist