The discovery of a coelacanth in South Africa in 1938 was surprising to biologists because:
A) it has not evolved for more than 80 million years.
B) it was thought to be extinct.
C) it was a newly evolved species.
D) it represents a transition between two major groups of fishes.
E) it is the first species to have made the transition to land.
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