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(1999)
A fish caught in time
the search for the Coelacanth
by Samantha Weinberg and Fourth Estate
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"Just before Christmas in 1938, the young woman curator of a small South African museum spotted a strange-looking fish in a trawler's catch. It was five feet long, with steel-blue scales, luminescent eyes and remarkable limb-like fins, unlike those of any fish she had ever seen. 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." "A charismatic amateur ichthyologist, J.L.B. Smith, saw a thumbnail sketch of the fish and was thunderstruck. He recognised it as a coelacanth (pronounced 'seel-la-kanth'), a creature known from fossils dating back 400 million years and thought to have died out with the dinosaurs. 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. The discovery was immediately dubbed the 'greatest scientific find of the century.'"--Jacket.
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A fish caught in time: [the search for the Coelacanth]
2002, Howes
in English
- Large print ed.
1841975362 9781841975368
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A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
February 5, 2001, Harper Paperbacks
in English
0060932856 9780060932855
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Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth
February 2001, Tandem Library
Hardcover
in English
0613913167 9780613913164
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A fish caught in time: the search for the coelacanth
2001, HarperCollins Publishers
in English
- 1st Perennial ed.
0060932856 9780060932855
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A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth
April 4, 2000, HarperCollins
Hardcover
in English
0060194952 9780060194956
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Fish Caught In Time the Search for The
May 4, 2000, Fourth Estate
Paperback
- New Ed edition
1857029070 9781857029079
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A Fish Caught in Time : The Search for the Coelacanth
April 4, 2000, HarperCollins
in English
0060194952 9780060194956
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A fish caught in time: the search for the Coelacanth
1999, Fourth Estate
in English
1857029062 9781857029062
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