Lets Start Sunday With A Quiz,

well one question actually, 

we have featured a fish that is known as a living fossil before, called the Coelacanth, and still lives in a number of colonies today, we also mentioned a great book about them, 

A Fish Caught In Time, a really good read, enough already! here is the question, which is the coelacanth's nearest living relation? to make things easy a choice of two, a mammal (class Mammalia), definition, any member of the group of vertebrate animals in which the young are nourished with milk from special mammary glands of the mother, say a cow (or us), or a bony fish, definition, bony fish are members of the class osteichthyes, and are defined by their calcified skeleton, hinged jaw, gill arches, gill filaments, and gill rakers, they also have an operculum for pumping water across the gills and swim bladders to control buoyancy, as well as mucous-lined scales, say a salmon, the answer of course is obvious, so is a cow or a salmon the coelacanths closest living relative? think about it first, then scroll down for the answer,

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the coelacanths closet living relative is of course the cow (or us)! this below might or might not explain why,

for the full version and written explanation have a look here, OK fess up who said salmon?