{"product_id":"a-fish-caught-in-time-samantha-weinberg-9781857029079","title":"A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth","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\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Samantha Weinberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1857029070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781857029079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fourth Estate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/04\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Samantha Weinberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050791956735,"sku":"9781857029079","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_78f5e035-6643-4748-8891-6291692b3d87.jpg?v=1685009269","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-fish-caught-in-time-samantha-weinberg-9781857029079","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}