The coelacanth hasn't evolved in 300 million years

When she finally was able to reach J.L.B. Smith, a local fish expert,he was able to confirm, at first site,that the creature was indeed a coelacanth.But it was another 14 years before a live specimen was found in the Comoros Islands,allowing scientists to closely study a creature that had barely evolved in 300 million years.A living fossil.Decades later, a second species was found near Indonesia.The survival of creatures thought extinct for so long proved to be one of the biggest discoveries of the century.