In December 1938, on a South African port, an unrecognizable blue fish was sorted among the catches of a trawler. What no one knows yet is that this animal belongs to a species that science knew only by its fossils, which had disappeared for 70 million years. This fortuitous discovery will transform our very conception of extinction. More
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In December 1938, on a South African port, an unrecognizable blue fish was sorted among the catches of a trawler. What no one knows yet is that this animal belongs to a species that science knew only by its fossils, which had disappeared for 70 million years. This fortuitous discovery will transform our very conception of extinction. More