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