31/08/2011 12:57 | By JD van Zyl, contributor, MSN Travel
‘Mythical’ creatures – where to find them if they really exist

Coelacanth - South Africa

A coelacanth captured in the Comoros (© Alamy)
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In 1938, South African scientists were stunned when a local fisherman caught a fish they were certain had died out with the dinosaurs 65 million years earlier. The "living fossil" is the most famous (and most elusive) resident of Sodwana Bay, South Africa's finest dive site.

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