However, in 1938, a fisherman in South Africa caught one of these fish, changing the perception ... studied the two species of coelacanth: Latimeria chalumnae and Latimeria menadoensis.

Smith named the fish Latimeria chalumnae after Courtenay-Latimer and its ... Smith began to search for a second specimen but had to wait until 1952, when Ahmadi Abdulla, a fisherman from the Comoro ...

It's not every day that a living fossil shows up in a fisherman's net ... amid an otherwise ordinary haul of fish. Though she didn't know it straightaway, Courtenay-Latimer had rediscovered ...

2.86 billion base pairs The African coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) was thought to have gone extinct around 70 million years ago until a fisherman caught one off the coast of the South Africa in 1938 ...