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A Fish Caught in Time

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781857029079
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 256
  • Udgivet:
  • 4. maj 2000
  • Størrelse:
  • 127x15x203 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 312 g.
  • BLACK NOVEMBER
Leveringstid: 8-11 hverdage
Forventet levering: 6. december 2024

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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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