This is Throwback Thursday #57. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc ...), please sent them to [email protected]. Thanks!
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Youtube has many good videos. Some are regular series. One of my favorites to watch during my workout is "The History Guy". In it, the host covers many events in history from science to politics to wars to cars and many things in between. Late last week, there was an episode that needs to be included here. It's called "Loch Ness Outdone: Rediscovery of the Coelacanth". Even if you know the story of the discovery/rediscovery of the Coelacanth, watch this video, as it does a great job telling the story of how in 1938, Captain Hendrick Goosen, a fisherman, brought a strange and seemingly extinct fish into port where Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer noticed it looked very much like some extinct fossil fish that she had studied. Check it out, as this is "history that deserves to be remembered"!
In 1938 a fisherman in South Africa caught a fish thought to have been extinct for more than fifty million years. The amazing discovery shocked and thrilled the world, challenged our understanding of species and evolution, and gave new meaning to the term "forgotten history."
