Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
Fanged
creature found on Texas beach after Hurricane Harvey
Another
coelacanth? An ordinary woman who was just walking on the beach in Texas after
the devastating hurricane Harvey spotted something looked very unusual. She was
neither a fisherman or ichthyologist, but got curious enough to take photos of
the decaying creature with fangs lying on the beach and posted them on the
Internet to ask for a help to find what the thing was. As you can imagine, thanks
to the smartphone, such jaw-dropping images easily and instantly caught people’s
eyes, messages were passed around and responses were posted.
If Ms. Marjorie
Courtenay-Latimer, a museum curator who first discovered the coelacanth in 1938,
had had a smartphone and internet connection, it would have been much easier
for her to identify what the creature she found in the fish market was.
Enjoy reading
and thinking what you would do if you found a very unusual looking creature
during your daily walk.
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