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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.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Biology, life sciences Zoology & animal sciences

• Full title: Fish Caught in Time
• Author: Samantha Weinberg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781857029079
• ISBN: 1857029070
• ID: 04301872
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 290 g
• Dimensions: 128 × 198 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. May 2000

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