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   ocr: Coelancanth fossils also provide strong evidence of early connections between continents. One in the Museum's collection, Azelrodachthys arartpensas, was probably limited to lakes and estuaries in Brazil and Africa (see supplementary photos). It dates to about 110 million years ago, when these continents were still joined. In 1975 a scientist in the Museum's Department of Ichthyology helped dissect a coelacanth. Inside were five fully formed young, showing us that coelacanths are ovoviviparous, meaning their eggs hatch internally, but do not receive nourishment from the mother's body. Because ...