Fossil Fish Found Alive: Discovering the Coelacanth

In 1938, an unusual fish was caught off the coast of South Africa. It was iridescent blue with white spots, was covered in hard scales with spiny points, and had four lower fins resembling stubby legs. Scientist Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was convinced it was a coelacanth, a fish thought to have been extinct for seventy million years. Full-color illustrations. Photographs. Maps.