Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Nature, Fish & Ocean Life, Fish
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Author: Keith Stewart Thomson ISBN: 9780393245356
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: July 17, 1992
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Keith Stewart Thomson
ISBN: 9780393245356
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: July 17, 1992
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles Times

In the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls—an animal of major importance to those who study the history of vertebrate life.

Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the coelcanth and what scientists have learned about it during fifty years of research. It is an exciting and very human story, filled with ambitious and brilliant people, that reveals much about the practice of modern science.

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"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles Times

In the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dragged from the Indian Ocean a fish thought extinct for 70 million years. It was a coelacanth, which thrived concurrently with dinosaurs and pterodactyls—an animal of major importance to those who study the history of vertebrate life.

Living Fossil describes the life and habitat of the coelcanth and what scientists have learned about it during fifty years of research. It is an exciting and very human story, filled with ambitious and brilliant people, that reveals much about the practice of modern science.

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