![]() ![]() KT: She tried to get the local cold storage company to take care of it, And she thought, “well I’ve got to find a way to preserve it.” So she set off on Christmas Eve in East London. ” But she knew in her gut that this was something different. SW: She said to the chairman of the museum, “I think this is something really special.” He went, “oh no, little Latimer, it’s just a rock cod. This thing was like nothing she’d ever seen. PA: It’s a very distinctive kind of fish with strange fleshy limb-like fins. She describes picking through this big pile of slimy fish and eels, and then suddenly she saw, poking up, this sort of strange, blue fin. SW: She loved nature so much, and she wanted to make the museum’s collections the best they possibly could be, and so she went down to the harborside. And the trawler captain had a habit of keeping any odd-looking interesting specimens and giving them to the curator of the local museum, Marjorie Courtenay Latimer. On this hot, December day in East London South Africa, a trawler came into town and deposited its load of fish. ![]() Keith Thomson: It was December the 22nd, 1938. This creature that has been around for four hundred million years. Sam Weinberg: It was like looking at a dinosaur. Per Ahlberg: You have this fish that’s.it’s like a sort of living time machine. Keith Thomson, author of “Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth” and emeritus professor of natural history at the University of Oxford. Samantha Weinberg, author of “A Fish Caught in Time” Per Ahlberg, professor of evolutionary organismal biology at Uppsala University Transcript Animated Life: Coelacanth This short video celebrates the discovery of the coelecanth, the fossil-like fish time left behind. ![]()
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