The Fish That Made Scientists Weep
- Posted on April 23, 2026
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The Fish That Made Scientists Weep
On the morning of December 22nd, 1938, a young museum curator in East London, South Africa, found something on the deck of a fishing trawler that she didn’t believe still existed. Among a pile of other, more recognizable sea creatures, she found a coelacanth—a fish the scientific world had declared extinct for approximately 70 million
