Fish That Time Forgot, A
Synopsis
When a curious fish was found by fishermen on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa and passed to the curator of the local museum, Darwin’s predicted ‘living fossil’ appeared to have surfaced. The eerily splendid coelacanth, now 400 million years old, called into question many of our established beliefs about evolution. Scientists have long struggled to compose parallels to illustrate the coelacanth’s importance – “as surprising as if one had discovered a living example of the dinosaur Diplodocus” decided the London Illustrated News.
Impressively filmed, A Fish That Time Forgot is a well-researched and highly dramatised documentary which successfully evokes the exotic beauty of the coelacanth and the unsettling strangeness of its extraordinary survival. Where else could this remarkable fish be lurking? What other secrets may it have in store? Did we re-discover the coelacanth, or did the coelacanth discover us?
When a curious fish was found by fishermen on the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa and passed to the curator of the local museum, Darwin’s predicted ‘living fossil’ appeared to have surfaced. The eerily splendid coelacanth, now 400 million years old, called into question many of our established beliefs about evolution. Scientists have long struggled to compose parallels to illustrate the coelacanth’s importance – “as surprising as if one had discovered a living example of the dinosaur Diplodocus” decided the London Illustrated News.
Impressively filmed, A Fish That Time Forgot is a well-researched and highly dramatised documentary which successfully evokes the exotic beauty of the coelacanth and the unsettling strangeness of its extraordinary survival. Where else could this remarkable fish be lurking? What other secrets may it have in store? Did we re-discover the coelacanth, or did the coelacanth discover us?
Duration
1 x 60'
Definition
SD
Genre
Factual
Subgenre
Science
Producer
DIVERSE PRODUCTIONS