Hey Bill, They said that about the Coelacanth too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoelacanthThe coelacanths, which are related to lungfishes and tetrapods, were believed to have been extinct since the end of the Cretaceous period.[citation needed] More closely related to tetrapods than even the ray-finned fish, coelacanths were considered transitional species between fish and tetrapods.[citation needed] The first Latimeria specimen was found off the east coast of South Africa, off the Chalumna River (now Tyolomnqa) in 1938.[9] Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer discovered the fish among the catch of a local angler, Captain Hendrick Goosen, on 22 December 1938.[9] A Rhodes university ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, confirmed the fish's importance with a famous cable: "MOST IMPORTANT PRESERVE SKELETON AND GILLS = FISH DESCRIBED".[9]
The discovery of a species still living, when they were believed to have gone extinct 66 million years previously, makes the coelacanth the best-known example of a Lazarus taxon, an evolutionary line that seems to have disappeared from the fossil record only to reappear much later. Since 1938, Latimeria chalumnae have been found in the Comoros, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Madagascar, and in iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Kwazulu-Natal in South Africa.
On the other hand none of the creatures in the pictures have a single hole in the wings.
Considering the number of hunters shown, and the small relative size of the vital area in seems impossible that not one of those creatures shows a single visible hole in the huge wing area.
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