Case file · Cryptid
Coelacanth in the Manado fish market
In September 1997 biologist Mark Erdmann saw a coelacanth, a 'living fossil' known only from Africa, on sale in a fish market in Manado, North Sulawesi.
1997 CE · 1.49, 124.84 · status: explained
The account
Local fishermen knew it as raja laut ('king of the sea'). A live specimen was caught in 1998 and the Indonesian coelacanth was named Latimeria menadoensis in 1999.