'Coelacanth' Genome Unlocked
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 18:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
The South African fisherman who pulled a prehistoric-looking blue creature out of his net in 1938 had unwittingly snagged one of the zoological finds of the century: a 1.5-meter-long coelacanth, a type of fish that had been thought to have become extinct 70 million years earlier. [More]