A fish caught in time: the search for the coelacanth
(Book)
A gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor - 400 million years old - a four-limbed dinofish! In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay- Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman's trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anything she had ever seen. The museum board members dismissed it as a common lungfish, but when Marjorie eventually contacted Professor JLB Smith, he immediately identified her fish as a coelacanth - a species known to have lived 400 million years ago, and believed by many scientists to be the evolutionary missing link - the first creature to crawl out of the sea. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer had thus made the century's greatest zoological discovery. But Smith needed a live or frozen specimen to verify the discovery, so began his search for another coelacanth, to which he devoted his life.
Notes
Weinberg, S. (2011). A fish caught in time: the search for the coelacanth. Sydney, NSW, Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Weinberg, Samantha, 1966-. 2011. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth. Sydney, NSW, Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Weinberg, Samantha, 1966-, A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth. Sydney, NSW, Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
MLA Citation (style guide)Weinberg, Samantha. A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth. Sydney, NSW, Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
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