"An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning." —Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles Times In the winter of 1938, a fishing boat by chance dr

The case history approach has an impressive record of success in a variety of disciplines. Collections of case histories, casebooks, are now widely used in all

The purpose of this book is to give an account of the life and times of a single species of fish, Latimeria chalumnae- the coelacanth (or are there now two spec

Describes the 1938 discovery of the coelacanth, a fish previously believed to be extinct, and subsequent research about it.

You haven’t changed a bit! Living fossils, or modern-day animals that very closely resemble their ancient relatives. Meet the coelacanth, horseshoe crab, drag