The Fish That Refused to Stay Extinct

For 66 million years, science filed the coelacanth under "extinct." Then on December 22, 1938, a trawler off South Africa hauled one up alive — five feet of steel-blue, lobe-finned fish that should have died with the dinosaurs. Museum curator Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer saved it from the pile. If a 4……