The links between archaeological eras has always been difficult to find. After finding animal fossils with gilled bodies and a sufficient land moving structure, the gap between water creatures and land walkers was no longer a mystery. These linkage animals have survived even today in some parts of the world. Finding the links of our past is important if we wish to find where we originated from,and also to find ways to better our lives. The coelacanth is a lobe-finned fish which evolved in the Devonian period, approximately 350 million ago.
Coelacanths have fleshy lobes on their fins, which are absent on most present day fish.
In theory coelacanths have a common ancestor with the lungfish and land vertabrates. That is why the surviving species of coelacanth is called a living fossil. The surviving species of ceolacanth lives between continental Africa and Madagascar near the Comoro islands, were human developement did not reach.