Being Green - 10 November 2017
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Mike Bruton and the Coelacanth
Our iconic fish, a legend in itself and a legendary player on the world science scene is…you’ve guessed it, the Coelacanth. Coelacanth research today is as active as ever, and in fact never stops growing. We know so much about the beautiful blue dweller of the sea caverns – and yet there is so much more to learn. Mike Bruton, ichthyologist and polymath ambassador for science, has given us a remarkable book – in fact really two books – which put it all in startling perspective The Annotated “Old Fourlegs” – the updated story of the Coelacanth.
(Interview with Mike Bruton, author and editor) joins us now … he’s spent a significant portion of his life living with coelacanths one way or another…
Publication details:
The Annotated OLD FOURLEGS, the updated story of the Coelacanth
Mike Bruton
Published by Struik Nature, 2017. 336p.
(Original OLD FOURLEGS text published 1957.)
Our iconic fish, a legend in itself and a legendary player on the world science scene is…you’ve guessed it, the Coelacanth. Coelacanth research today is as active as ever, and in fact never stops growing. We know so much about the beautiful blue dweller of the sea caverns – and yet there is so much more to learn. Mike Bruton, ichthyologist and polymath ambassador for science, has given us a remarkable book – in fact really two books – which put it all in startling perspective The Annotated “Old Fourlegs” – the updated story of the Coelacanth.
(Interview with Mike Bruton, author and editor) joins us now … he’s spent a significant portion of his life living with coelacanths one way or another…
Publication details:
The Annotated OLD FOURLEGS, the updated story of the Coelacanth
Mike Bruton
Published by Struik Nature, 2017. 336p.
(Original OLD FOURLEGS text published 1957.)
