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• Title : A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth
• Author : Samantha Weinberg
• Rating : 4.50 (607 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-1-14
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 240 Pages
• Asin : 0060194952
• Language : English

The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century." Smith devoted his life to the search for a complete specimen, a fourteen-year odyssey that culminated in a dramatic act of international piracy. Nations fought over it, multimillion-dollar expeditions were launched, and submarines hand-bui

The discovery was immediately dubbed the "greatest scientific find of the century." Smith devoted his life to the search for a complete specimen, a fourteen-year odyssey that culminated in a dramatic act of international piracy. Nations fought over it, multimillion-dollar expeditions were launched, and submarines hand-built to find it. 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. A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. 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. He recognized it as a coelacanth (pronounced see-la-kanth), a creature known from fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. In 1998, the rumors and the truth came together in a gripping climax, which brought the coelacanth back into the international limelight.A Fish Caught in Time is the entrancing story of the most rare and precious fish in the world--our own great uncle fo

In 1938, an alert young South African museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer came upon a curious specimen in a fisherman's nets: a fish with "four limb-like fins and a strange little puppy dog tail," one that she thought resembled not a living being so much as a china ornament. Although some scientists decried the discovery as a hoax at worst and an aberration at best, the find showed that the creature's range was widespread. When she could turn up no written descriptions of the find, she turned to other scientists for help, touching off a worldwide wave of interest in the creature that would come to be called the "coelacanth," long thought to be extinct, and now celebrated as one of the

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