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• noun (Context 1)
A large, primitive lobe-finned marine fish found primarily in the deep coastal waters of the Indian Ocean, famous for being a 'living fossil' that was thought to have been extinct for 65 million years until a live specimen was discovered in 1938.
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"The discovery of a living sarcopterygian off the coast of South Africa was one of the most astonishing zoological events of the twentieth century."
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sarcopterygian
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