Nekton's mission hopes to shed light on a 'dinosaur' fish

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Published : Feb 28, 2019, 10:24 PM IST

London: An upcoming science mission to map the Indian Ocean off the Seychelles hopes to shed new light on an ancient fish, once thought to have become extinct 70 million years ago. Scientists had believed the coelacanth disappeared with the dinosaurs, until a specimen was discovered by a South African fish trawler in 1938.

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