Compared to living coelacanths was tiny, just 7 cm long, and reminds us that coelacanths were morphologically much more diverse in the past and were experimenting with an eel lifestyle long before true eels evolved hundreds of million years later.

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OK, all you exceptional eels & elvers, it's time for the revEEL. This week's featured creature is a sneaky imposter or what I like to call a coEELacanth. Meet an eel-like coelacanth that lived in the mid-Devonian ~385 million years ago.

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