The King of the Seas
In early November, Teguh Peristiwady, a fish taxonomy expert from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), received a call from a fisherman from North Minahasa regency, North Sulawesi. The man had some urgent news: an ancient coelacanth fish had been caught in a net off the coast of Gangga Island.
Skeptical at first, Teguh asked the man to describe the fish. "I was surprised because the fisherman told me the morphological characteristics of the coelacanth," Teguh told Tempo.
December 16, 2014
In early November, Teguh Peristiwady, a fish taxonomy expert from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), received a call from a fisherman from North Minahasa regency, North Sulawesi. The man had some urgent news: an ancient coelacanth fish had been caught in a net off the coast of Gangga Island.
Skeptical at first, Teguh asked the man to describe the fish. "I was surprised because the fisherman told me the morphological characteristics of t
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