A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the CoelacanthA gripping story of obsession, adventure and the search for our oldest surviving ancestor 400 million years old a four limbed dinofish! In 1938, Marjorie Courtenay Latimer, a young South African museum curator, caught sight of a specimen among a fishermans 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,