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xii, 239 pages : 19 cm "Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish in a trawler's catch. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. Determined to preserve her unusual find, she searched for days for a way to save it, but ended up with only the skin and a few bones." "A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, saw a thumbnail sketch of the fish and was thunderstruck. He recognised it as a coelacanth (pronounced 'seel-la-kanth'), a creature known from fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. With its extraordinary limbs, the coelacanth was believed to be the first fish to crawl from the sea and evolve into reptiles, mammals and eventually mankind. The discovery was immediately dubbed the 'greatest scientific find of the century.'"--Jacket Includes bibliographical references and index

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Author

Weinberg, Samantha, 1966-

Publisher

London: Fourth Estate

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781857029062

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Science, History

Rating

4.03 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14