Science: The Romantic Zoologist

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But more living fossils, he says, may turn up any day. Not ten years ago, South African fishermen caught a latimeria, a large primitive fish that was supposed to be extinct 60 million years ago. Who knows what fossils may yet come to life—what myths turn to fact? Meanwhile, zoology is richer for Willy Ley's researches.

*German-born Willy Ley is better known as a writer on rockets and interplanetary travel. His present book is an expansion of an earlier work, The Lungfish and the Unicorn, which became a war casualty when published in 1941.

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