{"product_id":"9781857029079_a-fish-caught-in-time","title":"A Fish Caught in Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eA gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor – 400 million years old – a four-limbed dinofish!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1938, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fisherman’s trawl that she knew was special. With limb-like protuberances culminating in fins the strange fish was unlike anything she had ever seen. The museum board members dismissed it as a common lungfish, but when Marjorie eventually contacted Professor JLB Smith, he immediately identified her fish as a coelacanth – a species known to have lived 400 million years ago, and believed by many scientists to be the evolutionary missing link – the first creature to crawl out of the sea. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer had thus made the century’s greatest zoological discovery. But Smith needed a live or frozen specimen to verify the discovery, so began his search for another coelacanth, to which he devoted his life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Samantha Weinberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46896595763349,"sku":"9781857029079","price":26.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781857029079_ddcf1152-93dc-4bef-9314-d8b2b787d308.jpg?v=1776888303","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781857029079_a-fish-caught-in-time","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}