Imagine if you turned on the news tonight and saw a report that a hunter had accidentally shot down a pterodactyl. That's almost what happened on the Eastern Cape of South Africa in December of 1938, ...
The coelacanth — a giant weird fish still around from dinosaur times — can live for 100 years, a new study found. These slow-moving, people-sized fish of the deep, nicknamed a “living fossil,” are the ...
Life on our home planet dates back to hundreds of millions of years before the arrival of the dinosaurs. Among the most ...
The coelacanth is known as a “living fossil” because its anatomy has changed little in the last 65 million years. Despite being one of the most studied fish in history, it continues to reveal new ...
In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer Resurrected A Species Thought To Be Extinct For 66 Million Years
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
"This booklet was produced in conjunction with a special temporary exhibition in the British Museum (Natural History) to mark the 50th anniversary of the discovery of ...
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