Fish story of the century

In 1938 a strange large fish was brought to the attention of a young museum keeper on South Africa's east coast, who alerted scientists to the existence of a creature thought to have been extinct for 65 million years—a coelacanth. Its scientific name Latimeria honors that museum keeper, Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, who died last year at 97. Learn more about her and other women of Earth science in the Biographies section.