Scientists capture world's first images of baby coelacanth fish

Scientists have captured the world's first images of a baby coelacanth - an extremely rare type of fish known as a 'living fossil'.

Japanese marine researchers have found and successfully filmed the young fish at a depth of 528ft in Manado Bay off Sulawesi Island, Indonesia.

Video footage shows the 12.6-inch coelacanth, coloured blue with white spots, swimming slowly among rocks on the seabed for about 20 minutes.

As far as we know, it was the first ever video image of a living juvenile coelacanth, which is still shrouded in mystery,' said Masamitsu Iwata, a researcher at Aquamarine Fukushima in Iwaki, northeast of Tokyo.
Scientists hope the discovery will shed light on the habitat and breeding habits of coelacanths.

The researchers used a remotely operated, self-propelled vehicle to film the coelacanth, which appeared to be newly born, Iwata said.

A similar-sized juvenile was once discovered in the belly of a pregnant coelacanth. It is believed that their eggs hatch inside the female and the young fish are fully formed at the time of birth.

Coelacanths are commonly regarded as having evolved little from prehistoric times and were thought to be extinct until a living specimen was discovered in 1938 off the coast of southern Africa.

Detroit Red Wings

The Detroit Red Wings were embroiled in a tough playoff series with the Anaheim Ducks last spring and needed a clutch goal on home ice to win Game 7 and avoid getting upset.
Detroit looks to continue its home dominance of Anaheim on Saturday night when the teams meet for the first time this season.
The Detroit Red Wing (9-5-3) lost in seven games to Pittsburgh in the Stanley Cup finals last June after winning it the previous year.
One of the team’s second-seeded Detroit eliminated to reach the finals was eighth-seeded Anaheim (6-8-3) and it took bitter semifinals series stretched to its maximum to determine the winner.
That series included five games that were decided by one goal with Dan Cleary's score with 3 minutes to play in Game 7 securing a 4-3 win and a third consecutive trip to the conference finals for the Red Wings.
Detroit struggled at the start of this season, going 3-4-2 before turning things around with a 6-1-1 stretch after beating Vancouver 3-1 on Thursday. That came a night after a 9-1 victory at Columbus, a Central rival along with Chicago which is challenging the Wings' run of eight consecutive division titles.
"We aren't winning games in the same fashion that we used to, that's pretty obvious," coach Mike Babcock said. A visit by the Ducks could help the Red Wings continue their strong play. They're 24-3-0 with three ties against them all-time during the regular season at Joe Louis Arena.
Osgood is 6-3-2 with 2.77 goals-against average and a shutout, while posting a 14-2-0 mark with a tie and a 2.48 GAA in 17 games, including six in the postseason, against the Ducks. If Osgood is unable to play, Jimmy Howard would face Anaheim for the first time.
Howard won the last two games while stopping 56 of 58 shots, improving to 3-2-1 with a 2.66 GAA in seven appearances.
The Ducks dropped to 0-1-1 on a four-game trip after falling 3-2 in a shootout at Columbus on Friday.
"We are desperate for a win on the road," Coach Randy Carlyle said. "I didn't think we played that poor a hockey game. It's not easy to win on the road."
While Anaheim is struggling, Corey Perry has been one of the few bright spots. The right wing ranks among the league leaders with 12 goals and 21 points, failing to record a point in only three games.
Perry, though, has just three goals and five assists in 15 games against the Red Wings. Todd Merchant scored his second goal of the season Friday. The veteran center came up big in the playoffs against Detroit last spring, scoring in the third overtime to clinch a 4-3 win at Joe Louis in Game 2.

Buffalo Wild Wings

The Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant at the Atlantic Terminal mall had been trying for three weeks to address growing crowds of kids coming out for the Tuesday night 50-cent wings special, a top executive said in a telephone interview today.

But a confluence of forces — the restaurant’s location in a major transportation hub, the ability of social networking to rally people, and the interest of a large number of kids wanting to gather on the night before a school holiday — all combined to set the stage for the violence that broke out later that night in nearby Fort Greene, he said.

“It’s sort of a perfect storm, it’s very unfortunate,” said Michael Mehiel, the chief operating officer for Four M Capital LLC, the New York area franchisee for the Buffalo Wild Wings chain.
Last night, Mr. Mehiel sent an e-mail announcing that the Flatbush Avenue restaurant’s Tuesday night Buffalo Wild Wings special will be indefinitely canceled. But in the interview, Mr. Mehiel said the restaurant’s bargain night was “used as a flag.”

Mr. Mehiel said the restaurant, and the Atlantic Terminal mall, had been ramping up its security in the weeks leading up to Tuesday night’s events. Since then, he said, there have been “zero instances of violence in the restaurant.”

However, the crowds continued to grow in the mall. He said the mall increased security, and the restaurant added a fifth guard. On Monday, after they picked up the chatter on social networking sites over the weekend, encouraging Brooklyn’s teenagers to come to Tuesday night’s special, they informed the 88th Precinct, he said.

On Tuesday, the NYPD sent “a large detail to the mall,” he said, but “unfortunately this incident occurred.” Three teenagers were shot in two separate incidents related to groups of roving teens, but none suffered life-threatening injuries. (88th Precinct detectives have asked for witnesses to come forward.)

Mr. Mehiel said there have been no other incident like this in any of the franchise’s other restaurants. But the Atlantic mall restaurant is unusual, he said, in that “it is in an enormous transportation hub. Capt. Anthony Tasso, commanding officer of the 88th Precinct, said Wednesday in an e-mail that, “None of the involved individuals were from Clinton Hill, Fort Greene.”

As for criticism of the restaurant by Council Member Letitia James, he said he is not interested in picking a fight with her.