1K views · 24 reactions | WATCH finding the coelacanth: "The primitive-looking coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago. But its discovery in 1938 by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler fascinated the world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe-finned fish fits into the evolution of land animals." #WildtalkWednesday #MarineTalk Source: National Geographic https://goo.gl/N7pJFz | Wildlands | Facebook

The coelacanth story, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, JLB Smith