A prehistoric bluefish was found in a South African dock in 1938

To biologists and paleontologists,this creature was a very old and fascinating but entirely extinct fish,forever fossilized.That is, until 1938 when Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer,a curator at a South African museum,came across a prehistoric looking, gleaming blue fish hauled up at the nearby docks.She had a hunch that this strange,1.5 meter long specimen was important but couldn't preserve it in time to be studied and had it taxidermied.