Find “extinct” fish alive in South African waters

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April 1, 1939 | Vol. 35 | No. 13

Find “extinct” fish alive in South African waters

Hint of a “Lost World” beneath the sea, a survivor of long-gone geologic ages, has been hauled up in a trawler’s net off the east coast of South Africa: a fish of a kind supposed to have disappeared utterly from the earth 50 million years ago.