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...days before Christmas a trawler, fishing in 40 fathoms of water off the South African coast, brought up in its net two tons of redfish, kobs and sharks. Among them was a five-foot, 127-lb. fish which had handsome steel-blue scales, dark blue eyes and fins that were trying to be legs. It lived for three hours on deck, taking a bite at the captain's hand. The captain was no scientist but he knew fish, and he had never seen anything like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Living Fossil | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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