In December 1938 a museum curator sifting through a fisherman’s catch in a South African port lifted out a heavy blue fish that science had known only from fossils and presumed extinct since the age of the dinosaurs

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How Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer's 1938 find at East London revealed a living coelacanth, what J.L.B. Smith recognised, and why the popular 'living fossil' and 'fish that walked onto land' framings overstate what the discovery actually showed. The post In December 1938 a museum curator sifting through a fisherman’s catch in a South African port lifted out a heavy blue fish that science had known only from fossils and presumed extinct since the age of the dinosaurs appeared first on Space Daily .