The Boston Globe, October 2nd, 1998
Knowing that the languishing fish had precious time left, Mark Erdmann dropped into the water for a swim with the eons. Erdmann was eye to eye with a 4-foot-long, 64-pound coelacanth. "It was absolutely magical," Erdmann said by telephone from north Sulawesi, Indonesia, where he saw the fish. He is a postdoctoral biologist at the University of California at Berkeley. "It was nothing like swimming with sharks or dolphins. It wasn't like watching a tuna die, flapping about and gasping for air. "It was amazingly calm, collected, and almost dignified. It had these fascinating, big eyes, looking ar...
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