A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth

Samantha Weinberg, Fourth Estate

220 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions) user-added

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The coelacanth (see-lo-canth) is no ordinary fish. Five feet long, with luminescent eyes and limb like fins, this bizarre creature, presumed to be extinct, was discovered in 1938 by an amateur icthyologist who recognized it from fossils dating bac...

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