The fish was a coelacanth, one of a group that was thought to have gone extinct 70 million years earlier. But this one was alive. An unusual fish On 22 December 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, ...

But that's what happened in 1938, when a South African museum curator named Marjorie Courtenay ... Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered the coelacanth, which was assumed to have died out at the ...