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Coelacanth Sculpture

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This is a welded steel sculpture of a prehistoric fish that still exists today. It was one of my first significant sales and got me thinking I might be able to make a living at this. It was sold to a collector in Los Angeles ,and I made the mistake of offering to deliver it....which I did. In my girlfriend's Volkswagen bug with another passenger...
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CanoScan 8400F
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I went to a lecture last year by maybe the primary researcher working on Coelacanth at the moment.
It was once thought that there were VERY few left. The more info they get the bigger they think the total population is. I think the one submarine trip that found them found 12 in one 'lair'. But don't let that sound like they aren't still rare or endangered. (The reason for the uncertainty is that they live in VERY deep waters so getting the data ain't easy (read cheap).
Fishermen off the same coast pull them up more regularly than we thought till recently too. Which is both good and worrying to hear. At least they aren't very good to eat so the fishermen aren't targeting them.